There are no "pro-copy folks" on this forum or on this thread. Why should someone else profit off of Ric's name, reputation and hard work? Anyone buying a copy is, in effect, stealing from Rickenbacker. They're bad for the consumer and bad for Ric. Another reason copies are bad.Ĭan this thread be locked now? There's no reason to argue ad naseum about whether or not Rickenbacker copies are good. I think the pro-copy folks are also missing an important issue: unscrupulous people putting authentic TRCs on fakers and attempting to pass them off as the real thing. Nevertheless for my students such low-budget products would be equally interesting as their Chinese or Mexican Strats and their Korean Epiphones - which nowadays are really good guitars for their price by the way. We have to accept his point of view concerning this. There are no "legal" certified copies like the "Squier by Fender" and Mexican Fender things and John Hall has good reasons not to produce such low budget instruments (or have them produced in Far East). The trouble with Rickenbacker copies is that they are so bad. I would like to support the provocative thesis uttered in this thread: copies do not harm a good product. Paul, yours is a justified but nevertheless a very old-fashioned view on intellectual property rights. If Fender Stratocaster copies had been illegal, the Stratocaster had never become the most popular electric guitar in the world.
You're sort of ignoring one of the main points of this thread-that Rickenbacker copies are illegal in many jurisdictions.
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