The great Pepbox (or is it Pep Box?) debacle of 2016

[Iommic Pope]

It's all good I'm just kidding.

[ghost_effects]

Storm in a teacup in my opinion, if he has legal rights to any of the names/designs etc I am happy to change and even STOP, I'm not precious. I have not had any emails off him yet though. I'm happy to chat as long as he keeps things civilised.
When I first started doing them I left 'RUSH' out of all designs as I knew something like this might happen as I had heard Pepe can be a bit touchy!
I'm not even competing with him doing the Ge wedges!

[Jwar]

I had to look up who he is and I'm kind of still confused. LOL! So homie made the circuit back in the 60's? Is that right?? How many clones are there of this sucker out there? Upon two seconds of Googling Wem Pep Box came up. So that makes sense why he said something, but why now and why if they don't make the damn thing anymore?? I mean, I saw a 400 dollar reissue...LOL at that BS.

[Invisible Man]

This is an easy fix. Ian should change the name to Peepee Box. We get the lulz, and a crusty old fart gets angrier. Everyone wins.

Assumed this was a snipelfritz post, my bad.

[waltdogg]

very easy. send him some documentation on international copyright law.

[goroth]

Given that yours is silicon, I say call it a PepSi box and see who sues first

[goroth]

The choice of a new generation of guitarists.

[Lurker13]

Given that yours is silicon, I say call it a PepSi box and see who sues first

You're killin' me, dude!

Well, actually, both Iommi and Pope Francis chimed in and you should be getting cease & desist orders from their respective lawyers shortly.

You've been waiting for an opportunity like this since Tue Mar 05 2013, haven't you?

[Chankgeez]

[ThurberMingus]

Ian do you have a copyright on Ghost Effects? It would be awesome if you hit him with his own medicine. Looks like he has plans to rip off your name now. I don't care if he made a cool circuit or not. Dude seems like a total turd.

We should all send him turds in the mail.

[Jwar]

Can't copyright a name but you can trademark it. That being said, I doubt he has. Most people don't.

I would say let him waste his money on a cease and desist as he has no grounds to do anything. He has to have evidence that he in fact owns the name and has intellectual property rights over the design. Seeing as how this was originally made in the 60's and for only 1 year, I kind of highly doubt it.

Fuck that guy. He's just trying to be relevant.

[UglyCasanova]

Looks like someone had a miserable life

[Jwar]

You're in the UK right???
Here

https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-p ... rade-marks

Dude is full of shit. Register it before he can. Then he can eat shit and die.

[D.o.S.]

I would like to point out that it's entirely likely that this dude designed the circuit and got completely screwed out of most of the money that the circuit has generated, not dissimilar to the way a lot of musicians get, uh, not equitably compensated by songwriting/publishing.

[Jwar]

I would like to point out that it's entirely likely that this dude designed the circuit and got completely screwed out of most of the money that the circuit has generated, not dissimilar to the way a lot of musicians get, uh, not equitably compensated by songwriting/publishing.

See I get that angle, but he's a crotchety old fuck (73) and created the shit in the 60's. What the fuck does he expect?? If he had a real grievance, he could at very least, I dunno write an email or private message? Maybe since he's old, he doesn't know how to.

He's a Trump supporter though DOS. Does that matter? I looked at his page. haha