Gibson no Guitar Hero?
We’ve read several confusing and conflicting reports about Gibson Guitars suing over the patent regarding the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games. The timing seems suspicious. Is it that these huge corporations waited until they saw the huge profits coming in from the overwhelming popularity of these games?
Finally we came upon this updated news story from blog.wired.com. They have posted both Gibson’s original press statement in regards to the Harmonix lawsuit, and the original source story on Reuters.com.
We don’t want to believe the beloved Gibson Guitars folks have gotten greedy like the rest of the corporate world. Thanks to the blog.wired.com post, it’s clear now that Gibson is just protecting their intellectual property rights, which they filed a patent on in 1999.
Besides, Gibson is building real guitars, has always set a standard a fret above the rest, and they’re already on the cutting edge of technology with their self-tuning guitar.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Written by: Mike Withrow
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