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A company training its staff to forward copyright complaints to the appropriate channel is trivial. Expecting all customers of a company to be magically educat

A company training its staff to forward copyright complaints to the appropriate channel is trivial. Expecting all customers of a company to be magically educated about the proper channel for copyright complaints is much less realistic imo. A company making profit from counterfeits making counterfeit reporting unintuitive sounds a bit suspicious.

otterley 8y ago
First, you’re mixing up counterfeit goods with copyright violations. They’re not identical. Different bodies of law, but it’s easy to confuse the two. At any rate, if you’re an IP rights holder, knowing how to deal with violations is table stakes for your legal representative. Googling “amazon copyright notice” gives you the correct page link near the top of the first results page.
- tsevis 8y ago
  I have reported the item on their correct page. By the way you can try to report it yourself right now. You cannot. You simply get the message that the ASIN or URL is wrong.
- hopler 8y ago
  Thanks, unofficial Amazon representative, for explaining that Amazon's policy on copyright infringement is to misappropriate a little on every sale (small enough to not be worth the victims' cost of pursuing a claim) and make large profits on a high volume of offenses. Way to burnish your reputation.
  - otterley 8y ago
    To be clear, to my knowledge, this is not Amazon’s policy. Their policies are clearly laid out here: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=U5SQCEKADDAQRLZ&language=en-US&ref=efph_U5SQCEKADDAQRLZ_relt_201361070 https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...
thatoneuser 8y ago
Right? Amazon is first and foremost a logistics company. And we’re being told “oh you gotta send it down the proper channel to get a response.” BS. If amazon can deliver a million packages a day, they should damn well be able to forward a complaint to the department it belongs in. What a joke.

otterley 8y ago

First, you’re mixing up counterfeit goods with copyright violations. They’re not identical. Different bodies of law, but it’s easy to confuse the two. At any rate, if you’re an IP rights holder, knowing how to deal with violations is table stakes for your legal representative. Googling “amazon copyright notice” gives you the correct page link near the top of the first results page.

tsevis 8y ago
I have reported the item on their correct page. By the way you can try to report it yourself right now. You cannot. You simply get the message that the ASIN or URL is wrong.
hopler 8y ago
Thanks, unofficial Amazon representative, for explaining that Amazon's policy on copyright infringement is to misappropriate a little on every sale (small enough to not be worth the victims' cost of pursuing a claim) and make large profits on a high volume of offenses. Way to burnish your reputation.
- otterley 8y ago
  To be clear, to my knowledge, this is not Amazon’s policy. Their policies are clearly laid out here: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=U5SQCEKADDAQRLZ&language=en-US&ref=efph_U5SQCEKADDAQRLZ_relt_201361070 https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

thatoneuser 8y ago

Right? Amazon is first and foremost a logistics company. And we’re being told “oh you gotta send it down the proper channel to get a response.” BS. If amazon can deliver a million packages a day, they should damn well be able to forward a complaint to the department it belongs in. What a joke.