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[KDH] HUGE Fender Cease and desist news

1h 13m ago by piefed.social/u/baronvonj in guitars from www.youtube.com

This post calls back to this post covering Fender's default judgement in German court granting a copyright on the Stratocaster shape.

Fender / FMIC have sent multiple cease and desist letters threatening to commence lawsuits for copyright infringement of their Stratocaster body shape. A shape that up until 2 months ago was public domain.

A couple of other videos on the matter:

I’ll never buy another fender again.

yeah I can't imagine this will have a positive result for them.