Re: Gibson threatening the mandolin and guitar luthier community
Originally Posted by
sblock
Sorry, but it has never been true that private companies "can do whatever the heck they want." On the contrary: private companies are bound by applicable U.S. laws, just as the rest of us are. As it happens, numerous laws apply to things like disposing of their corporate assets (and taking business losses off taxes, for example, by destroying inventory), and also to copyrights and trademarks.
Literally, you're right but I think the point is, there are no stockholders or others such as regulatory agencies that they have to answer to. Only the consumer.
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
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