Quote - Fair enough:  I realise that this is getting a bit repetitive;  everyone who didn't previously understand the meaning of the word "catalepsy" may well be getting there by now...  

On the other hand, kuroyume0161's last post  (not catalepsy-inducing) missed the point by a country mile - and then the rest.   If there's an American guitar called a "GenderBender", or whatever, and a Japanese guitar-maker produces a "GendaBenda", I'd say that the US manufacturer does have a potential case (this works just as well, the other way around, I should point out, where the Japanese company is the aggrieved party).    Where the "knock-off" tends not to be pursued, of course, is where the "knock-off" is actually as good as, even better than, the original..   That's never going to happen in the case of Turbosquid models, or any equivalents.   Nobody who has been allotted a zillion squid to buy helicopter gunships is going to be stupid enough to think that what is on sale at Turbosquid is the genuine article.   Well, maybe some of Mugabe's cronies, but no-one else.

Knockoffs are actually more legitable than 3D representations - which is my point.  Only recently have Gibson and Fender started trying to pursue legal trademark protection of their designs - it only took 50+ years (guitarists are way too laid-back).  And they are indeed going after the 'as good as or better' companies (like PRS).

I'm sure that the 3D representations will be targetted eventually as well.  This is all good mega-corp business - snuff out the puny competitors and then charge an arm, leg, first-born for licensing with strict limitations and lots of lawyers and paperwork.

This is the problem.  The law is blind - ridiculously blind.  It is analogous to the 18 y/o dating a 17 y/o and being charged with 'sex with a minor' (and so on).  Laws are black and white and need to be very wide swaths of grey at times.  I can see going after other large companies profitting from a company's designs - I can't see going after a child who downloaded a few songs online like she was the CEO of Enron or suing a poor hard-working Korean couple for millions because of a pair of pants - get it...yet?

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