“Subject of this letter is your offer of products which infringe the copyright of our client’s Fender Stratocaster guitar,” an example of the Bird & Bird cease and desist letter, as shown by McKnight, reads.
“We insist that you immediately stop manufacturing, selling, marketing, or producing such infringing products.”
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.
It’s for this reason I think they’ll lose the suit. It’s not obviously fender anymore. Hasn’t been since like 1975.
Unfortunately, they have more money for lawyers than probably the entire net worth of LsL.
Let’s see them go up against Yamaha. In fact, I’d be happy to see Yamaha start advertising their guitars as “strat-shaped” just to force Fender’s hand.
Let’s also make sure that Edward “Bud” Cole, the new CEO at Fender, gets full credit for this shitshow.