Timeline entry
Reports say Fender’s Stratocaster crackdown has begun with cease-and-desist letters
Early reports described the beginning of a Stratocaster-shape crackdown and raised questions about how far enforcement could reach.
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Timeline context
This note is one entry in the AltGuitar Legal Timeline — a chronological record of the Fender-style guitar-shape dispute, court rulings, cease-and-desist reports and market reactions. See the full timeline for the surrounding context.
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