Coincidence or plagiarism?

[Baculum]

There's a curious situation in my opinion. The wood speakers are the legendary danish System Audio SA7K. The white speakers produced in Russia... What would you do if your company's product had a clone?

 

[Gregadd]

""Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
Plagiarism is unethical but not illegal providing it does not involve copyrighted material. If they don't have a patent, there is not much you can do. Just look at all the Wilson WATT clones.

 

[Baculum]

""Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
Plagiarism is unethical but not illegal providing it does not involve copyrighted material. If they don't have a patent, there is not much you can do. Just look at all the Wilson WATT clones.

Either I like Wilson Audio speakers too much or I haven't seen speakers that are confusingly similar to Wilson Audio In my opinion flattery is not an imitation but hommage. I think Ole's speakers aren't patented, but that doesn't make copying them any more ethical.

 

[Gregadd]

Either I like Wilson Audio speakers too much or I haven't seen speakers that are confusingly similar to Wilson Audio In my opinion flattery is not an imitation but hommage. I think Ole's speakers aren't patented, but that doesn't make copying them any more ethical.

I too am not confused by the Wilson clones. The resemblance is undeniable. Even though Wlson has moved on the imitation continues.

 

[Baculum]

It seems that there's no such thing as copyright protection in loudspeakers industry and anyone has the right to produce and sell clones of B&W, Dynaudio or Focal products etc.