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  • Fender guitar lawsuits in Europe

    From Nightfox to All on Wed Jun 10 14:34:43 2026
    For anyone here who plays guitar - Recently I heard some news about Fender that Fender has filed lawsuits in Europe against other manufacturers who make guitars similar to Fender's Stratocaster. The Stratocaster guitar shape is now public domain in the US, so Fender can't legally do anything about that in the US, but that's not the case in Europe, and it seems Fender wants to take legal action to prevent other guitar makers from selling Strat-like guitars in Europe.

    It seems like an odd move, as Fender is only doing this now..

    Nightfox
  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 11 06:47:25 2026
    It seems like an odd move, as Fender is only doing this now..

    I think the problem is that someone made a slightly-better guitar, so now people are buying that, but it's clearly derivative.

    So they're losing their business, so they don't have much to lose by suing, probably.

    But I don't know. I read about it in context of the idea of a law to protect artistic styles. Which... seems like a bad idea, but I appreciate your attempt at making some _other_ discussions, and talking about laws is probably political at a time when we've had enough of that.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 11 07:45:27 2026
    Nightfox wrote to All <=-

    It seems like an odd move, as Fender is only doing this now..

    Yeah, I don't know the legal basis for it - copyright, if it is,
    typically has to be defended immediately. The horse has left the barn,
    so to speak on Stratocaster clones.



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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Adept on Thu Jun 11 09:01:58 2026
    On Thursday, June 11th Adept was heard saying...
    I think the problem is that someone made a slightly-better guitar, so now people are buying that, but it's clearly derivative.

    I see them sort of like Harley Davidson -- great for the look and name, but there are much better options for a bike TBH.

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