Strat copyright?

[Budweiser]

I was admiring my Strat last night & I must say Mr. Fender got it perfect right from the get-go. What a beautiful looking guitar with the curves, pickguard, controls, headstock, burst colours etc. Not to mention the tone!

I was wondering though, there's alot of other guitar manufacturers that use the exact same Strat design for their guitars (maybe just the headstock is a little different) & I wonder if they have to pay any type of royalties to Fender?

[Zerberus]

Re: Strat copyright?

Fender is as we speak in the process of trademarking the design IIRC

Then the WILL have to pay royalties, or stop building knockoffs

[Dooogz]

Re: Strat copyright?

Fender is as we speak in the process of trademarking the design IIRC

Then the WILL have to pay royalties, or stop building knockoffs

Man, they r gonna make a mint!

[Bludave]

Re: Strat copyright?

They already make a MINT!!!

[McLaughysSN]

Re: Strat copyright?

doesn't mean you cant still go the warmoth route

[xerxes]

Re: Strat copyright?

hehe, read a book on the origins of fender, trust me, he didnt get it right from the first prototype he made...

[fusion101]

Re: Strat copyright?

he made it right with the strat(and cbs ****ed it up) but, about fender knockoffs, yea theres a alot crap out there(GandL etc.) but the pearlcaster should always be allowed to be made just because it so much better. Fender shouldnt make a copyright.

[Sprinter]

Re: Strat copyright?

he made it right with the strat(and cbs ****ed it up) but, about fender knockoffs, yea theres a alot crap out there(GandL etc.) but the pearlcaster should always be allowed to be made just because it so much better. Fender shouldnt make a copyright.

G&L, is crap? WTF dude? G&L's are without a doubt the best Fender style guitars on the market.

Sprinter

[Stratoplayer]

Re: Strat copyright?

G&L, is crap? WTF dude? G&L's are without a doubt the best Fender style guitars on the market.

Sprinter

Gotta back ya up on this one Sprinter, even though you are a little biased j/k Seriously though, the G&L 'superstrats' are heard & shoulders above any other 'insertnamehere-caster' out there.

[570ex]

Re: Strat copyright?

woah woah woah, G & L crap? mayb you confused it with something like Encore, coz G&L's are by no means crap!

[fusion101]

Re: Strat copyright?

g and l is crap compared to fender oringinal strats, horrible construction(swiming pool route). GandL when acossiated with Hellcaster were creating great guitars, Hellcaster left;then joined with fender and invented things like the showmaster and started building better guitar, then GandL ended up making guitars like fender did from 1992-1998, and GandL has been **** sence then.

[Sprinter]

Re: Strat copyright?

g and l is crap compared to fender oringinal strats, horrible construction(swiming pool route). GandL when acossiated with Hellcaster were creating great guitars, Hellcaster left;then joined with fender and invented things like the showmaster and started building better guitar, then GandL ended up making guitars like fender did from 1992-1998, and GandL has been **** sence then.

Even with a swimming pool route (which I also disapprove of), G&L's are far superior to the modern Fenders. By the way, the Hellcaster's are back with G&L now, because they hated the trash guitars Fender was making for them.

Sprinter