There are text or descriptions in the product listing explicitly showing that the products offered for sale are counterfeit or pirated.
The rights holder is the owner of copyrighted works A, but the product B offered for sale copies the copyrighted works A with obvious demonstration of piracy on the product title or description, such as “copy edition(复印版)”. In such circumstance, the rights holder of copyrighted works A could submit copyright complaint based on the reason of Obvious Piracy and specify the infringement via screenshot.
There is the obvious demonstration of piracy “复印版书籍(copy edition books)” indicated on the title of the product offered for sale.
· Complaint reasons: Please elaborate the reasons for copyright infringement. (e.g. There is obvious demonstration of piracy of “复印版(copy edition)” indicated on the title of the product offered for sale, which has infringed our copyrighted works A.)
· Supporting evidence: Please provide screenshots showing the infringement. You may refer to the sample of supporting evidence as below:
Note: The infringing book images used in the above case are designed for illustration purpose only rather than for sale.
Please log into Alibaba IPP Platform (Complaint Submission-Submit a Complaint) and choose the pertinent platform. For example, for filling complaint against products on Taobao.com, please choose "淘宝网Taobao.com".
Subsequent steps of the complaint submission should be completed as below:
1. IPR: "Copyright", please choose the corresponding copyright information. (Note: Please note that takedown requests against Taobao listings should be filed based on valid intellectual property rights under protection by PRC laws.)
2. Complaint type: Please choose "Product listing".
3. Reason: Please choose Obvious Piracy.
4. Infringing listings: Please submit and verify URL of the suspicious infringing product listings.
5. Supplement infringement reason(s): Please describe your complaint reasons and identify where the infringement is.
6. Documental proof of infringement: Please submit supporting evidence to demonstrate the infringement.
Note: You may download the template of the supporting documents for your reference.
A: Under the circumstance that the rights holder’s copyright is used in the product for sale without authorization, if the product for sale is same or similar with rights holder’s genuine product with obvious piracy description, it might be identify as infringing listings of obvious piracy. If there is no obvious piracy description, please try to file the complaint via test buy or image comparison.