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Its a legal/ethical quagmyre. Use the name as a "style" to pay homage and credit where due, and get accused of financially benefitting from it, dont give credit, get accused of outright copying someones product. (just go to ebay and do searches, u will be shocked who people are comparing their plugs to)
Who really knows who invented what, but I have a lot of respect for all the old timers, esp guys like Donny, who I treasure every minute speaking with. If i were him, i would be bitter too,but then he's done ok for himself, noone can corner the market on everything.Maybe he will start buiding out of wood again, who knows.
Unfortunately I never got to meet the late Stan Gibbs, or Bob Pond, who is like 90 now?, God bless him. I heard he was at the show visiting this weekend in fact. These guys were/are treasures,and a lot of people owe them . A lot of people.
Gibbs does own the "danny"name, they lease it from the widow. Nib as u may recall Tony Spina used "dani" which is the name of his granddaughter?, and there was nothing gibbs could legally do about it. I can make a plug called a "Dane" if I chose to, its my last name and noone can stop me. I try to be respectful and i certainly have much admiration for the old timers, more than they will ever know.
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