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The only thing I don't like about them is how they are copied so much. Ill go to London Drugs, or somewhere that sells cheap knockoffs, and people who don't know a lot about guitars will say," hey, isn't that the same guitar as you?". then I have to explain how an 08 MIA Strat is different from a knockoff... just an all around cool guitar otherwise 8)


You would have to look into patent, copyright, trademark, and intellectual properties law to understand why the body style remained generic. Apparently only the headstock and items such as the Fender 'F", the word "Strat" etc, could be restricted. Why not ask Mike Eldred why the Tele and Strat bodies became generic to the industry?

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My only complaint with the stratocaster line of guitars is that I only posses one! :lol:

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camcowx7 wrote:
The only thing I don't like about them is how they are copied so much. Ill go to London Drugs, or somewhere that sells cheap knockoffs, and people who don't know a lot about guitars will say," hey, isn't that the same guitar as you?". then I have to explain how an 08 MIA Strat is different from a knockoff...

just an all around cool guitar otherwise 8)


This is mighty true.
If I came home with yet another strat...(we know how different they all feel and sound)...my mom would roll her eyes until they fell out.

...ANOTHER ONE??

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zzdoc wrote:
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You would have to look into patent, copyright, trademark, and intellectual properties law to understand why the body style remained generic. Apparently only the headstock and items such as the Fender 'F", the word "Strat" etc, could be restricted.


The entire design COULD have been restricted under "trade dress" laws (the most famous example of trade dress being a Coke bottle), but they simply didn't do it. It would have been hard to imagine back in the day that anyone would have wanted to copy an existing body design.

Fender recently attempted to protect the body designs as trade dress and lost the case. A case of closing the barn door 25 years after the horse got out, it seems.
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