Copyright infringement from Lego
Today i received the following email from Amazon. It is a copyright infringement letter regarding a list of products. However, after going through every single item listed - none of them are products i have listed or created listing pages for, sold in the past or ever even scene before.
I do sell Lego and Lego figures but they are genuine Lego (i am also a Lego collector) and i would never sell any of these items.
The only reason i can think i have been sent this is because somebody has been altering old listing pages that used to be for Lego items and have changed them to fake products.
Anyone else had this message or had to deal with this kind of thing before?
Hello,
We are contacting you because we received a report of copyright infringement from the rights owner listed below. Sellers on Amazon.co.uk are not allowed to create listings or detail pages that infringe copyright.
We removed the content listed at the end of this email. We may let you list this content again if we receive a retraction of the complaint from the rights owner. Their contact information can be found below.
If the rights owner agrees to retract their complaint, they must send the retraction to us at notice-dispute@amazon.co.uk.
If you believe that the reported content does not infringe the rights owner’s copyright, you may email notice-dispute@amazon.co.uk with supporting information, if appropriate.
If the rights owner does not retract their complaint, or you do not provide supporting information, we may provide your contact information to the rights owner upon their request.
We consider allegations of intellectual property infringement a serious matter and your account is under review. If we receive more complaints about your listings, we may not allow you to sell on Amazon.co.uk.
To learn more about this policy, search for “Intellectual Property Violations” in Seller Central Help.
ASIN: B074P2VGJ3 B072JX9STH B07233VGGB B07B7HD6RK B078MBMCQN B07BCDYBJC B01MYO8MSK B01HMB2VV0 B079M5695P B079WCM6T1 B07798MPT8 B071CK2K49 B079ZWHDCM B07B13T3QQ B00DN9USMA B07BKB2HCQ B07B9J4TCH B079ZWBLQS B079ZXGTC3 B079ZWTR92 B079ZY4G3R B079ZZFM2W B079ZY9V1F B079ZXFSRQ B079ZXN7H5 B079ZVVVQX B073RP8JQ7 B079ZXGMZN B07BMWGHZJ B075V3H44C B079ZZNJ92 B079ZYZFP1 B079ZVCHCN B079ZW6177 B079ZYM9N7 B079ZW3TN8 B079ZW34JF B079ZB284P B079ZXKPH2 B073PZYQHX B01LMWX3XU B071SKSQNG B01A9HUTKE B07855LQZF B079P6B935 B079QJ3G82 B07C8Q6FPM B07BNPY41N B07BP62JGD B07BNP61SL B07BDK4JKQ B07BMT3NC9 B07BNJTWYL B07BLX4SQP B07BGY9QYS B00569OUCE B07BBLH1ZV B0789GK1WN B0721J9TK1 B078Z1XL5X B078Z1XL5X B018IMNZM6 B079MDHM9T B078MSL8BD B01N23DFX8 B01I9OD6AE B01L00AWQU B073R179J4 B073R179J4 B00AU826ZO (Some of these ASINs)
Infringement type: Copyright
Complaint ID: 1161510032
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Sincerely,
Seller Performance Team
Amazon Services
Seller_ejwc84JNL5Uk6
You said you do sell some Lego items - do you have their permission to sell these ie are you an authorised re-seller of Lego? Big brands are getting very protective over who can sell their products now (even pre-owned ones).
Seller_nN7JsONxZz55O
Hello The_Brick_Loft1
I received the same messages today, with the same ASINs. I am also an official Lego reseller and do not sell any of these products.
There is actually one ASIN that is Lego: B00AU826ZO.
You can still see the product on other Amazon pages (Amazon.de e.g.) I did sell those in the past yes, but it is real Lego. Maybe, you did, too? I don’t know why this is a copyright issue.
I hope we will find a fast and good solution with Amazon/Lego.
Alex
Seller_nN7JsONxZz55O
And I did the same. Thank you for creating this thread, I am sure there are more sellers of Lego that have the same problem and now can get a clue how to proceed in this case.
I did also mention that the minifigure is part of the Set 75002 from 2013.
Seller_7l3ef6gH7v0cN
This sounds like something that should really be escalated higher with Amazon. You can’t seriously believe an entry level Amazon agent is going to take a huge risk by allowing products that have been flagged by another huge corporation for copyright infringement because you have an Amazon invoice. I wouldn’t! However, if you were to escalate this to someone higher up the chain, they are paid to make the educated decision that this is not infringement with an article like that and reopen the listings.
