Teenage guitar fantasies too hard to resist

What teenage boys do in their bedrooms has kept glossy magazine publishers and online archives of the human form in tasteless mansions for many years. Now two more companies devoted to inspiring teen dreams are engaging in a bit of a tiff.
Gibson guitars are used by many guitar legends like B.B. King and Eric Clapton. They’re also used by bedroom guitar players all over the world via Activision’s ‘Guitar Hero’. Now, according to Reuters, “Gibson requests that Activision obtain a license under Gibson’s … patent or halt sales of any version of the ‘Guitar Hero’ game software.”
‘Guitar Hero’ has made a billion dollars and Gibson feels it’s entitled to a piece of the action because fourteen million ‘Guitar Hero’ players go to that fluffy pink place in their heads holding what looks a lot like a Gibson guitar.
According to Reuters, “Activision said its games did not infringe Gibson’s patent, and that by waiting three years to raise its claim, the guitar maker had granted an implied license for any technology.”
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