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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2026
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Now I feel conflicted with the yard sale Behringer Strat knockoff I have, considering Behringer’s grey area.
I mean, it's pretty clear that companies have been copying the overall shape. But that's because Fender didn't try to obtain the copyrights for 50 years! So I don't see any conflict in calling out Behringer for infringing copyrights while calling also calling out Fender for trying to enforce copyrights that they were denied 20 years ago.
they tried to trademark in the u.s. and got shot down. the whole thing started now because of a default judgement granted in europe against a chinese seller of cheap knockoffs. there was never even the hint of a possibility of a trial there because they would never have showed up to defend. the default judgement was basically handed to them, and they took advantage and went straight for the jugular of basically every manufacturer they could find.