At Sam Ash , the second-biggest guitar retailer in the U.S. and a major Fender dealer, Chief Operating Officer David Ash said he doubted small shops would fold without use of the designs in question.
Jackson, chief executive of AutoNation, the nation's largest dealer group, estimates 1, 000 dealers will go out of business industrywide this year and another 2, 000 in the next 18 months.