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So consider the alternative (because this happened to us): 5-6 years back, one of our brand stores sold a thing (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DKG3NX7 https://ww

So consider the alternative (because this happened to us): 5-6 years back, one of our brand stores sold a thing (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DKG3NX7 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DKG3NX7) that created an entire niche of products, and 6 months after our success, a buncha clones came out of the woodwork. On Amazon, they created listings that imitated our copy and images. On AliExpress/Taobao/etc., they ripped off our images and pretended to be us. Deciding which product/listing is the original product is super nontrivial especially when there's international trademarking and IP law (or lack thereof) involved.

kalleboo 7mo ago
Getting 6 months, you were lucky! I've heard of kickstarters that were ripped off on AliExpress before they even finished their own product...
- account42 7mo ago
  Doesn't that just mean that they brought little more to the table than an idea?
  - ChoGGi 7mo ago
    I think we should severely limit copyrights and patents, but not get rid of them entirely. Or they're just ideas.
  - kalleboo 7mo ago
    It's an interesting debate. One more thing they did was prove there was a market for the idea.
  - _DeadFred_ 7mo ago
    That is the whole point of copyright/patent law. Society benefits by having interesting ideas brought to market, and society misses/looses out when people who bring ideas to market are punished by copycats, stopping new ideas/innovation. You wouldn't have had an industrial revolution without copyright/patent laws. In the modern world where we have done most of the low hanging fruit a new novel idea could be even more valuable for society to protect.
alistairSH 7mo ago
Yep. That happens. But delisting some items that cost less but not others doesn’t fix your problem. So…?
ethbr1 7mo ago
The amount of product images on Amazon these days with incorrect shadows or perspective lines... wow. If Amazon detected and banned any seller whose product images were gen AI or which didn't match user photos, it'd go a long way towards regaining trust.

kalleboo 7mo ago

Getting 6 months, you were lucky! I've heard of kickstarters that were ripped off on AliExpress before they even finished their own product...

account42 7mo ago
Doesn't that just mean that they brought little more to the table than an idea?
- ChoGGi 7mo ago
  I think we should severely limit copyrights and patents, but not get rid of them entirely. Or they're just ideas.
- kalleboo 7mo ago
  It's an interesting debate. One more thing they did was prove there was a market for the idea.
- _DeadFred_ 7mo ago
  That is the whole point of copyright/patent law. Society benefits by having interesting ideas brought to market, and society misses/looses out when people who bring ideas to market are punished by copycats, stopping new ideas/innovation. You wouldn't have had an industrial revolution without copyright/patent laws. In the modern world where we have done most of the low hanging fruit a new novel idea could be even more valuable for society to protect.

alistairSH 7mo ago

Yep. That happens. But delisting some items that cost less but not others doesn’t fix your problem. So…?

ethbr1 7mo ago

The amount of product images on Amazon these days with incorrect shadows or perspective lines... wow. If Amazon detected and banned any seller whose product images were gen AI or which didn't match user photos, it'd go a long way towards regaining trust.