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Another day, another Gibson legal case. This time the guitar giant is going after Collings Guitars. Gibson is contesting the headstock shape and believes it is too similar to its own designs.
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Looks like Gibson is back in the courtroom. Satellite Amplifiers recently received a legal court notice from Gibson to stop them making guitars based on the classic Epiphone Coronet design.
The next chapter in the Heritage/Gibson saga: Gibson has released a statement giving its side of the story. Heritage has broken the agreement between the two guitar makers, the statement claims.
Heritage Guitars announces on Instagram that it's made a "defensive" legal filing against Gibson, alleging a "campaign of harassment", presumably over copyrights.
Music copyright law might be getting turned on its head by two people who have calculated, copyrighted and then given away for free every possible melody to prevent accidental infringement.
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Armadillo is accusing Gibson of threatening dealers that are selling Dean and Luna guitars with legal action. They are also making a counterclaim against the Flying V, Explorer and ES-335 body shape trademarks.
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Gibson has now officially responded to the whole trademark infringement case with Dean Guitars and you can read the full statement here.
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That was quick! Gibson follows through with its threat to take legal action on companies it says infringe on its copyrights - the first company is Dean Guitars! Will this be the first of many?
Uli posts a response to the heat generated by recent reports of a strike at his MUSIC Tribe City factory and the legal action taken against a Chinese news site for using words like "shameless" and "copycat".
A Chinese music technology news site is being threatened with legal action for calling Behringer's latest recreations of vintage synthesizers "copycat" and "shameless".
The UK offices of five major MI brands have been raided over alleged price-fixing! The probe is centred on Fender, Roland, Casio, Korg and Yamaha, according to reports.
