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Post subject: Heartfield guitars
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:36 am
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Does anyone know what the deal is regarding ownership of the body- and headstock designs of Heartfield guitars and basses? Does Fujigen own them or Fender? Fgn guitars still makes the Elan,but I seem to remember the Fender Custom Shop doing a one-off guitar for NAMM some years ago based on the RR design.

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Post subject: Re: Heartfield guitars
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:56 am
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Are you sure the body/headstock designs have some sort of copyright protection at all? I mean, a Strat body doesn't…

Anyways, the Heartfields were "Heartfield by Fender", and considering the usual Fender USA / Fender Japan transactions, I'd guess any such rights would be Fender's (actually, FMIC's).


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Post subject: Re: Heartfield guitars
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:32 pm
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jmattis wrote:
Are you sure the body/headstock designs have some sort of copyright protection at all? I mean, a Strat body doesn't…

Anyways, the Heartfields were "Heartfield by Fender", and considering the usual Fender USA / Fender Japan transactions, I'd guess any such rights would be Fender's (actually, FMIC's).

Thanks! You’re right about there seemingly not being any copyright on guitar design. The amount of Fender rip offs out there is staggering!

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