Warmoth LPS

[OperatorAce]

Does Warmoth not make the LPS anymore?

 

[Cagey]

No Gibson designs at all. Gibson would rather descend into obscurity than let others help market and popularize their product for free.

 

[Ribeye]

I share your frustration Cagey, but $111 million in revenue is hardly the slippery slope into obscurity.  Gibson is not hurt in the slightest through its stringent patent protection.  Its product depth (acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, electric guitars, etc.) and brand diversity (Epiphone, Kramer, and Steinberger, Baldwin pianos, Slingerland drums, Tobias bass, Cerwin-Vega audio equipment, Wurlitzer vending machines and jukeboxes, and Echoplex amps) source revenues from too many veins to be adversely affected.

Plus, the iconic history of the LP, SG and 335 have created the desire of many guitarists to own them.  Gibson does not need Warmoth to promote their designs-- They have the marketing influence of genuine rock stars.

So then, why be concerned by a small replacement parts company's infringement?  GREED!

 

[OperatorAce]

Well they still make several Gibson designs it seems, albeit changed. Has anyone heard of any plans to come out with a Warmoth LPs style body, sort of like the new "Regal?"

 

[Ace Flibble]

No Gibson designs at all. Gibson would rather descend into obscurity than let others help market and popularize their product for free.

This is the stupidest thing in the long line of stupid things you've said.

How, exactly, does selling a copyright-infringing, directly competing product constitute free marketing and promotion?

I'm sure Pepsi and Coca-Cola are best friends and love how their products advertise each oth... oh, wait. Okay, well I bet Apple are really fond of all the other mp3 pla... okay, no, bad example there, too. Netflix's revenue must have spiked after LOVEFiLM star... whoops. Biggie and Tupac really apprecia... aww, shit. Metallica were ecstatic when Megade... balls.


We've been over this a hundred times. If Gibson (or any other company) doesn't protect its patents in every single instance, a precedent is set allowing people to directly steal their IP. If you let one thing slide, no matter how large or small (and Warmoth most certainly is not at the small end of the scale), if you then try to take action later you're just told that you didn't protect your IP before so you've no ground to protect it now. This is why everyone can get away with ripping off Fender, as they never protected their IP in the early days and a precedent fell into place preventing them from then protecting their IP later.

But apparently international copyright and trademark laws should not apply to random peoples' guitar supplier of choice because entitlement.

 

[stratamania]

Regal, rhymes with eagle, beagle and also legal.

So the Regal is the probably the nearest LP type shape we will now see.

 

[DesmoDog]

So then, why be concerned by a small replacement parts company's infringement?  GREED!

Or maybe it's because if trademarks/copyrights/whatever aren't protected, you can lose the legal rights they provided you in the first place.