JM/SS/PRS/Ownership

rickcard71

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If John decides to leave PRS at some point, can PRS still make that guitar shape or does John own it like EVH did for the Wolfgang until the patent ran out?

Also, I wonder if John gets paid per guitar sold or a flat rate?
 
Only the lawyers really know.

Seriously tho, it all depends on the details of the endorsement.

The strat shape is not really defendable at this point, so Paul *could* make a strat-ish guitar, in fact I think the NF3 is kinda like that? It's unlikely he'd be able to continue to sell a guitar with John's name on it, and certainly wouldn't want to.
 
Ernie Ball Music Man continues to sell the EVH model, just renamed the Axis, with a different selector switch location and a belly contour on the back. Everything else being equal. Well, they did change the Floyd pivot posts a few years back. I don’t believe the artists own the designs.
 
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