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I don't think the vids will be seen around again...not because of merit to Ervin's copyright claim, but because of the cost of fighting it in court...the way I see it is simple: Somogyi chose to be interviewed and obviously knew he was being filmed...the videos that we saw were not being sold, rather like any interview being 'aired'...IMHO Mr. Somogyi has no right to claim any sort of copyright on these videos and their presence should in no way detract from his project that he plans to sell (it had better not, as the videos give no detailed analysis and if that is what Ervin plans to sell then it will be a rip off)

Yeah, unfortunately there seems to be a pattern here----bow down!

Joe

For what it's worth, most of what Ervin said in the two videos (and even more) can be read the article "Principles of Guitar Dynamics and Design" available from his web site.

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Alain Moisan
Former full time builder of Acoustics, Classicals and Flamencos.
(Now building just for fun!)

I can assure everybody in this forum, that, over the course of five years and a lot of money my wife and I spent on our dream to create the most extensive video library and resource of contemporary guitar making, we did not shoot one minute of video without receiving the legal rights and releases to use the footage. Luthier icons like José Romanillos, John Monteleone, Rick Turner and probably 25 or 30 others were proud to participate and share their knowledge. If there is one thing in the world we DON'T want to do (and we never did), is to infringe anybodies copyright. Out of deep respect to any guitar maker we still try to understand motives and not go into legal actions. I am confident that this issue will be straightened out in a couple of days.
We will keep up our work - there is so much more to share!
Regards,
Holger

Thanks Holger your efforts are much appreciated.

Cheers

Kim

I see Part 1 is down. Will part 2 be down too?
I had a feeling that was going to happen. It's a super condensed version of some of the book material.