How do I stop overseas sites from stealing my product designs and photos?
High-quality original product photos and handmade designs are frequently stolen and listed on overseas marketplaces without permission. While platforms offer takedown processes under their terms of service, enforcing copyright enforcement is inconsistent, leaving creator listings active while competitor knockoffs remain up.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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How do I stop overseas sites from stealing my product designs and photos?
- 1Geoblocking specific countries on personal websitesDid this help you?
- 2Removing listings from marketplaces like Etsy that cannot be easily geoblockedDid this help you?
- 3Adjusting shipping settings on Etsy so products aren't shown in certain countriesDid this help you?
- 4Placing a physical printed backing card, spool label, or small branded wooden tag right on the table inside the photo shoot itselfDid this help you?
- 5Uploading a clean thumbnail as the primary image and only adding a watermark to secondary imagesDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Our photos are high quality and already getting stolen on the marketplaces we sell on.”source ↗
“It’s against the terms and can get them taken down. I had some taken down, some of my competitors still have them so I don’t know what their tool does to pick it up but it’s better to not have them.”source ↗
“I'm worried about aliexpress stealing my product, and I'm wondering the best way to stop it?”source ↗
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