PRS knock-off from Eastern Europe

[Pinch]

I don't know how many of you are readers of the UK Guitarist magazine, but last month they did a review of "Fame" guitars which is the most blatant copy of PRS I have ever seen.

The review is on their Musicradar site: http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/fame-forum-iv-sd-618473

 

[garrett]

May the legal proceedings begin! :box:

http://www.prsguitars.com/copyright.php

“Paul Reed Smith,” “PRS,” “McCarty” the PRS logo, the PRS Paul Reed Smith logo, the Paul Reed Smith signature, the bird inlays, the headstock bird, the PRS headstock shape, the Santana headstock shape, the PRS body shape, the PRS “scoop” design, “Singlecut”, “Mira” and the “SE” are all registered trademarks of Paul Reed Smith Guitars “Custom 24,” “Modern Eagle,” “SE Custom,” “SC 245,” “SC 250,” “Starla”, “Tonare”, “Sewell”, “ Blue Sierra”, and “Angelus” are all trademarks of Paul Reed Smith Guitars. The Birds, New Birds, are copyrighted by PRS Guitars.

(emphasis added)

 

[DHW]

Vigier holds the top spot for blatant ripoff in my book... JJ is another one... Some of these get pretty good reviews too, you'd think they'd want to stand on their own. JJ even has a "custom 24"

 

[Maertl513]

Living in Germany and playing guitars you are aware of the company Fame from Danzing, Poland. It's one of those store brands of Music Store, Cologne, for more than a decade. They got good reviews by the press. Good pricing compared to US factory made PRSi. And according to potential law suit issues I believe Fame is aware about trademarks.