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Re: Lambo sues US based replica builder...
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2013, 09:03:38 AM »
Has this happened before in the U.S. do you know?
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Re: Lambo sues US based replica builder...
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 12:28:09 AM »
many times  -  McBurnie Coachcraft built a Frri Daytona replica
Modena coachcraft built a frrri 250 GT california rep
... there are a bunch more  -  and in the other "rep worlds" i.e. clothing, timepieces, perfumes etc. it is a regular occurrence to visit a site only to be greeted with a very long legal injunction document
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Re: Lambo sues US based replica builder...
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 07:22:48 AM »
It seems to be quite a worrying trend lately for the "big boys" to take legal action. I suppose its worse in the states as legal pay-outs and costs always seem to be off the scale! How do the companies that are still going get around this?
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Re: Lambo sues US based replica builder...
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2013, 07:45:32 AM »
regardless of the legal outcome, what mega-corporations do is bury people in subpoenas and paperwork which sends them to the wall without ever getting to court  -  no one claims that copying something with the intent of passing it off as the real thing is wrong, but as far as building a homage after an original vehicle that when done, is clearly NOTHING like the real article is another thing altogether I feel .... but of course, firms investing billions to develop a vehicle and millions in marketing are also right to be monumentally p155ed off about such ventures   -   it is just not clear to that doing so would be illegal ... if so, I imagine my transforming a 1974 Porsche 911 into an extremely accurate repro of a 1994 twin turbo 930 could have landed me in court  -  but where does it stop? sticking a whaletail and turbo guards on a 911 makes it look like a 930 .... all original parts but not the absolute beast it looks like

as I mentioned: difficult legal area, so the big boys opt to shut people down instead of bothering to try and potentially fail their case
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Re: Lambo sues US based replica builder...
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2013, 07:13:53 PM »
Often the case with big businesses using bully boy tactics to mess up smaller companies! Just seems to be a lot of this against kit car makers in the press of late.
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