Gibson hits Trump Guitars with cease and desist for resemblance to Les Paul body design
Gibson hits Trump Guitars with cease and desist for resemblance to Les Paul body design
Gibson has hit Trump Guitars and 16 Creative with a cease and desist due to the new guitar line's resemblance to Gibson's Les Paul design.
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So Gibson is the Nintendo of instruments?
That have sense with the fact what all Japanese have a hyperfixation with Les Pauls.
Related anecdote, my sister's fiance (at the time) gave me a guitar he supposedly found by a dumpster or in a storage unit. It looked like a Les Paul, but wasn't, I forget the name on the top. I sent it to have it looked over and a couple little things repaired.
The repair guy ended up calling me and making sure I was good with XYZ, and I asked if he could tell me anything about it. Apparently, I had a Japanese counterfeit Les Paul. I guess back in the 70s/80s/90s, Japanese companies would make clones of Les Paul's and sell them for a reduced price, but their quality was kinda comparable to the real deal.
Les Paul would sue and/or send a cease and desist, and the company would shut down and pop up a few months later under a different name, rinse and repeat.
I ended up selling the guitar back in high school, kinda wish I hadn't, but actually ended up buying another a few years later, different color but a Japanese Les Paul.
I really want to know why jp have a fixation with lespauls. The 90% of animes that had a character playing music use one.