Amazon Store Featuring Zazzle Screenshots - Lower Prices so not Rsellers

[CreativeLeahG]

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=VinMea

I found one of my products here and the store appears to have many other Zazzle items. The product that is a screenshot of my Zazzle item is selling for MUCH less than on Zazzle (and they offer customization) so pretty sure this is NOT a reseller.

@Scott 

Can someone please remind me what the process is for reporting this to Amazon I recall  Zazzle had some alternative arrangement that differs to their regular one. A faster system of reporting. 

Thanks

[ZAZKAT]

I am sure that this comment has been made in the past, but why does zazzle not use come kind of protective cover for the products that are sold so that the rights stay with the zazzle creators?  Is that because creators sell on different platforms?

[PenguinPower]

Unless the pirates are using Zazzle assets (their logo or name), they don’t really  have the rights to go after 3rd parties…. The designs are ours and thus our responsibility…. I’m pretty sure that you have to be the copyright owner to even put in a DCMA. Maybe you could argue that they have the use of their mock-ups to complain about, but many of those might be hard to prove. 

[CreativeLeahG]

We can get them taken down, I just needed to be reminded of the link that Zazzle negotiated specifically for our use.

[PenguinPower]

I was answering Zazkat, she asked why Zazzle does not pursue pirates….. do not worry, I’ve reported plenty of Amazon pirates. They are however like whack—a-mole… keep your eyes open, the items are likely to pop up a few more times under different store names. They do seem to give up and permanently delete your stuff after you’ve reported them several times, but you’ve got to make it a pain for them first. 

[ZAZKAT]

"I am sure that this comment has been made in the past, but why does zazzle not use come kind of protective cover for the products that are sold so that the rights stay with the zazzle creators?  Is that because creators sell on different platforms?"

Above is what I said.  It's not about pursuing them.  My comment was to suggest why Zazzle does not put a screen/cover of sorts on the photo of the product so that a screenshot cannot be made.  Like a Zazzle copyright film over the design to protect its creators.  Does that make sense?

[PenguinPower]

You, in your stores' settings (in advanced settings - the gray box under 'design transfer'), have the option of putting a watermark on all of your preview images. It comes with caveats - if you enable watermarking that may exclude you from outside searches - this is not a Zazzle decision, it's the search engines themselves that do the excluding... With watermarks being fairly easily removed with advanced imaging software these days and not appearing in search engines being major disadvantage, the default is to have them off and most designers choose to leave them off. We are here to sell and it can be difficult enough to be found without making yourself even less visible. 

[ZAZKAT]

Thank you for the clarification.  And "watermark" was the word I was searching for.

[MissPaperFarm]

Some websites and apps have ways in which any screen shot of an item comes out blank. That would be the coolest if Zazzle had that function. Although, I screenshot my own products sometimes 😅 There would have to be a place in which designers when logged in, could download the auto generated product shots for themselves. 

[Barbara]

Once upon a time, using a transparent layer over images made it so right-clicking produced nothing for the scoundrels. These days, there are plenty of screenshot apps that don't work via a right-click.

It sure would be nice if the businesses hosting thieves would start vetting what they allow to be sold on their platforms.

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[Harmony · Accepted solution]

There is a form for reporting design theft. It used to be here on the forum but all posts from the old forum are now gone and can no longer be accessed through archived links. Report infringement using this Amazon form. You will need to log into your Amazon account https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ref_=help_search_1-2&nodeId=G201995100&qid=1653...

[CreativeLeahG]

Thank you! 🌻

I have now submitted the form!! 

[JerryLambert]

I reported one of my designs as well.