Is it illegal to copy a Hummingbird with over 90% resemblence to market them ?

[gotomsdos]

Hi, guys out there !

I have a law issue to consult with you.

Is it illegal that someone or company copies a Gibson guitar(maybe over 90% resemblence. But brand name and logo is entirely different from "Gibson") such as A hummingbird to market them (commercially)?

 

Any input would be appreciated.

[fortyearspickn]

Probably 10% would be enough if the 'copying' included the little orange label inside, the logo on the headstock and the pick guard.

It's features like that - not the shape of the body or the shade of the sunburst that would be considered infringing on a feature.

[Dotneck]

Hi, guys out there !

I have a law issue to consult with you.

Is it illegal that someone or company copies a Gibson guitar(maybe over 90% resemblence. But brand name and logo is entirely different from "Gibson") such as A hummingbird to market them (commercially)?

 

Any input would be appreciated.

 

Which country's laws are you asking about?

[Jinder]

I for one think the new Sigma Golden Age Gibson knockoffs are shockingly cheeky. Apparently they sound very good and play well, but they said VERY close to the wind lawsuit wise.

[slimt]

I wonder if anyone has tryied to copy a Ibanez, or fender acoustic? probably not.. There just not that good.. Gibson has a Following.. good and bad.. :)

[MissouriPicker]

Have a long-time friend who has a Lyle guitar. It's a copy of a Dove and looks very close. All laminate. Made in 1968 in Japan. This copying of Gibson and Martin has been going-on for decades. Some of it licensed and legal, some of it on the shady side.

[Leonard McCoy]

I have a law issue to consult with you.

If legal advice is what you need, consulting a lawyer is a good idea.

 

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[OldCowboy]

Why are you so absorbed with this matter? Various Hummingbird knockoffs (and Doves and J-200's) have been around for over four decades....

[blindboygrunt]

I can't imagine much of a reception if I arrived at my lawyers office and asked him about a counterfeit guitar

 

He'd tell me to get a life.

[OldCowboy]

I can't imagine much of a reception if I arrived at my lawyers office and asked him about a counterfeit guitar

 

He'd tell me to get a life.

Yours is better spoken than mine - I can hear him now saying "What are you, a ******?" 😨

[OldCowboy]

The above deletion was meant to be dumb a$$. Is that better? 😯

[ponty]

Nothing says Gibson more than a Kevin Kopp...well except Gibson

[slimt]

Nothing says Gibson more than a Kevin Kopp...well except Gibson

 

ya but Kevins Guitars are just better.. so are alot of others. Walker, to a Collings.. Just better..

[OldCowboy]

ya but Kevins Guitars are just better.. so are alot of others. Walker, to a Collings.. Just better..

Could you elaborate?