Found your artwork on Temu, Redbubble or Amazon? What to do

Whatever the platform, a DMCA-style notice needs these things (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)):

• Your signature (electronic is fine).
• Identification of your work.
• Identification and location (URL) of each item that uses it.
• Your contact details.
• A good-faith statement that the use is not authorised.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorised to act for the owner.

Prepare these once and adapt them for each platform.

Temu's intellectual property policy says to submit reports through its IP Portal (you must be logged in). If you cannot use the portal, you can send the same information to its DMCA Designated Agent, whose details are on Temu's policy page. A report should include:

• Specific identification of your work: a registration number if you have one, a description, a link to the work and its first publication date.
• The nature of the problem: the product, its packaging, or the product page's images or text.
• The URLs of the product pages and the names of the sellers.
• Supporting documents, such as order IDs for test purchases.
• Your name, address, phone and email.

Temu may ask you to verify your rights. Reports must be made in good faith and sworn under penalty of perjury. Temu says it may reject reports it considers false, incomplete or made in bad faith, and that repeated inaccurate notices can cost you your submission privileges. It also says it may terminate repeat infringers. The page gives no timelines. Full steps: how to report a copy of your artwork on Temu.

Redbubble's policy is explicit that only the rights holder, or someone acting for them such as an attorney, can lodge a valid takedown notice, because only the owner knows whether a licence or fair use might apply. Use the reporting route in Redbubble's IP policy and help centre, and have your proof of ownership ready. The help centre also has an article for artists whose work appears elsewhere on the internet without permission. Full steps: how to report a copy of your artwork on Redbubble.

Amazon provides a “Report Infringement” form for rights owners, which you can find in its help pages. We have not verified the form's current steps for this guide, so open it and follow what it asks for. Have your work, the product listing URL (the ASIN page) and your contact details ready.

1. Save evidence first: screenshot the listing with the date, URL and seller name.
2. Document ownership: original files, dated drafts, a first-publication link.
3. File one notice per platform, listing every URL for the work.
4. Log it: date sent, reference number, outcome.
5. Re-check in a week. Copies often come back under new listings.

If a listing might be licensed, a clear fair-use case, or just a very similar but independent design, pause. A false claim can create real liability (17 U.S.C. 512(f)), so only report what you are confident is yours and was not authorised.

Searching each marketplace by hand does not scale. TraceMyAssets looks for possible copies of the artworks you register, and its monitoring repeats the scan on a schedule you choose, so you can spot them earlier. A match is a possible match, never proof, and we only see public pages that a search engine indexes. Then you decide what to do.

See what to do when you find a copy of your artwork.