Adventures In Selling Online #11

4/10/2016

Unwanted Correspondence!

Below is info from Amazon's own online form, and email to me, detailing the information they will give to 'third party sellers' when you try to defend your copyright (click image to enlarge).

A picture with information from Amazon's online form and the information it gives to criminal gangs when you complain.

The info about you Amazon gives to criminal gangs.

Now it might sound as if i'm being sensationalist about this, but it's known that most of the copyright infringements on Amazon are run by criminal gangs, rather than some fuzzy little grandma from her sewing room (see link below from the Interpol IP Conference).

Here's what actually happens -

1. I see my designs being sold illegally on the Amazon marketplace

2. I fill in an online form to let Amazon know that these are my designs and i request them to be taken down from the seller.

3. Amazon gives my email address to the 'third party seller'. (yup, these criminal gangs!)

Yes, I know it sounds crazy. But does Amazon give me the address etc of the criminal - hell no!

Love to know if anyone else has had experience of this - either contact me here, or leave a comment..

Here's a link to a speech by David M. Luna (Senior Director for National Security and Diplomacy Anti-Crime Programs, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) at an Interpol IP Crime Conference in September which shows how seriously the police take these criminal gangs and terrorist organisations operating online, and how it damages not just artists, but the country's economy too. http://m.state.gov/md262085.htm

I've asked Amazon why they need to give this information. I'll pop up their response when, if, I get one.

Speak soon,

Davy

Silke

4/10/2016 09:24:55 pm

Apparently it's the law. I think, that anybody, who is offering a business proposition should be obliged to reveal a legal representative who can be held legally responsible. I find the US position very peculiar.

But although we have an obligation to publish a valid impressum in Germany for the vendor on the site, amazon get's away with this duplicity in Germany, too.

Either amazon is the vendor, then their address is absolutely sufficient, and their no host or they are host, then their site is one big offense against German law.

This host business pisses me off! Especially with amazon who is making a profit and by all rights should have their assets frozen according to the RICO ACT. I got hundreds of cases where amazon failed and lost their safe harbor. And not just with one or two designs. Amazon hosts hundreds of my designs and at any given time it is more than ten and more than ten where amazon failed to comply, which makes amazon liable for criminal infringement. I'm just one small unsung artist.

Amazon failed to comply in thousands of cases from hundreds of artists, which in my book makes amazon a criminal organization.

I'm tired to send notifications for the same infringement with the same vendor over and over and over and over again.

I'm tired to see known wilful repeat infringing vendors remain in business for over a year.

I'm tired that law enforcement isn't closing down amazons partner marketplace, since amazon isn't capable to prevent fraud on an appealingly large scale, doesn't vet vendors and ignores apparently red flag knowledge and exhibits a gross wilful blindness to the problem on a case by case and in general.

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Adventures In Selling Online #11

Unwanted Correspondence!

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