Fender has escalated its legal campaign against Stratocaster-style guitar manufacturers by sending cease-and-desist letters to US-based builders, including LsL Instruments, following a landmark German court ruling that established the Stratocaster body design as a protected work of art. The action has prompted affected companies to seek legal defense funding and raised concerns about potential industry-wide implications for S-style guitar producers.
According to McKnight, who was given copies from different sources, the letter also demands the recipient recall all the guitars it has sold in the EU and destroy them.
Phillip McKnight has been on a rampage recently, let's see how much is hyperbole.
Fender failed to secure a trademark years ago, seems they might have one for the head stock in Europe. Good luck vs China.
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Fender has escalated its legal campaign against Stratocaster-style guitar manufacturers by sending cease-and-desist letters to US-based builders, including LsL Instruments, following a landmark German court ruling that established the Stratocaster body design as a protected work of art. The action has prompted affected companies to seek legal defense funding and raised concerns about potential industry-wide implications for S-style guitar producers.
(This is a repost because I screwed up the link on the previous one.)
This is crazy.
According to McKnight, who was given copies from different sources, the letter also demands the recipient recall all the guitars it has sold in the EU and destroy them.
Phillip McKnight has been on a rampage recently, let's see how much is hyperbole.
Fender failed to secure a trademark years ago, seems they might have one for the head stock in Europe. Good luck vs China.
Indeed, in the current online environment it's always wise to keep that in mind.
I spent some time on you tube looking at it, all of the channels are on board, huge fender hate is about to drop.
This is great