Subj : Re: Fender guitar lawsuits in Europe
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Fri Jun 12 2026 08:42 am

 Ni> Not just someone, but I think there are multiple others that could be
 Ni> considered better than Fender.

If there are multiple others, probably even less danger to the Fender name, and greater money they could make.

 Ni>  Ad> But I don't know. I read about it in context of the idea of a law to
 Ni>  Ad> protect artistic styles. Which... seems like a bad idea, but I apprec
 Ni>  Ad> your attempt at making some _other_ discussions, and talking about la
 Ni>  Ad> probably political at a time when we've had enough of that.
 Ni> 
 Ni> The point wasn't to talk about laws, but rather the Fender company making
 Ni> arguably a dick move.

Oh, absolutely. I was talking about a related proposed law, that was related because I read about it in an article comparing it to the Fender case, and that things like the Fender case are why the law could be problematic.

But, regardless of all that, Fender is definitely making a dick move, though the question is whether or not it's reasonable to do so.

I think I'd be a lot more willing to consider Fender's position if these makers with newer models were building off of something less than 15 years old. But most of what made Fender models special appears to be decades old, at this point.

That said, clearly other people here know way more about guitars than I do; I'm mostly interested in it because of the intersection with patent/copyright/etc., where I have way more knowledge than is likely reasonable.

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