Can this guy do this?

[SteveB]

Blackspy,

It's like smallequestrian said. If EBMM is *aware* of someone infringing their patents or copyright, they *must* defend their intellectual rights against the infringing party or they forever weaken their position defending such things in the future.

It's not anyone's fault here, it's the law. I'm sure nobody feels threatened by the little guy selling minitaures. But if EBMM becomes aware of it and takes no action, then the next guy, who wants to make full-size guitars 'borrowing' the same patented or copyrighted idea can say, "hey.. why are they coming after me when they knowingly let so-and-so use the same design on his miniatures!"..

.. and they'd have a good legal argument.

Plus, we don't know for sure what the "man about whom we shall waste no bandwith" is doing.. maybe there's already a suit pending against him... maybe he cut a licensing deal.. none of us is privvy to those things.

 

[CudBucket]

It doesn't have to hurt EBMM's bottom line to be illegal. EBMM built their rep and owns their name. Some schmuck on any Ebay shouldn't be able to take advantage of that and improve his bottom line.

 

[slukather]

And to bing up one more point, this could hurt EBMM future sales, if some young guitar (who wouldn't have a clue who EBMM are) see this peice of crap on Ebay, and see's what a peice of junk it is, and say he walks into a guitar store sometime in the future to buy a guitar, the saleperson say, why don't you try an ebmm, this kid will more than likely remember seeing this peice of junk ripoff and be turned off EBMM products becuase of some cheap rip off.

And l agree with most of the people here who say, these knock offs are cheap, you can pick them up anywhere, and l wouldn't give them the time of teh day.

Blackspy, the people here are ripping on you or anything, it's just the threads you started about that retart who l don't want to mention, cause l've heard it too much to be honest and l don't want to hear it again.

Scott.

 

[bassman1979]

I agree with you guys on this but it seems like the people that are buying these bad interpretations of EBMM's fine guitars are loving them. The seller has a feedback rating of 700 with a 100% positive feedback! Some things i guess we will never understand!

 

[Big Poppa]

OK enough....

Blackspy...thanks for the thought and I sincerly appreciate it, but rest assured that I want threads of copies deleted for numerous reasons.....I dont want to give them airtime and advertising on MY forum, but mainly it is a legal strategic decision. You have assumed that we aren't doing anything about the Petrucci copies from this dealer.....Please understand that the constant conversation and hurt feelings on your part on this topic actually undermine my efforts to thwart said infringement. Ever hear about the element of suprise?

The minature guy is borderline in that our intellectual property covers guitars not art pieces. How much money do you spend on attorneys at $400.00 per hour each for a marginal infringement. A flat out blatant copy is worth whatever it costs.

Bottom line is that we are not ignoring infringers, counterfitters, and forgers. It is #1 on my most distasteful parts of business.

All of you have the BEST intentions but please give me and Wonderdog the benefit of the doubt.