Redbubble copyright infringement and a Redbubble copyright takedown: what each desk makes you prove
Short answer. Redbubble copyright infringement is reported with a Notice and Takedown Report from the rights holder or an authorised agent, listing each product page by its address. A Redbubble copyright takedown removes the listings named and nothing else. Trademark and patent claims use other routes with other proof: a registration number at Amazon and LinkedIn, the VeRO programme at eBay, and for a patent on eBay, usually a court ruling.
Every desk in this guide starts from the same question: what can you show? A Redbubble copyright infringement notice for a copied design needs six statements and the address of each copy, and no registration. A trademark report needs a registration number, a jurisdiction and the goods the mark covers. A patent complaint needs a patent number and, on the two largest marketplaces, a decision from a court or a paid evaluator. A report that supplies the wrong kind of proof is returned or ignored, whatever its merits.
Redbubble copyright infringement comes first, and thirteen desks in all are covered by what each one makes you prove: Redbubble, eBay, Amazon, LinkedIn, the Chrome Web Store, VK, Bandcamp, Substack, itch.io, Scribd, Course Hero, Vimeo and BitChute. Drafting the notice itself is covered in the guide to writing a DMCA takedown notice. Two earlier guides look at some of the same desks from other sides: how far one notice reaches, and which desk holds which kind of stolen work. Nothing here is legal advice, and every notice described below is a sworn statement.
What does each desk make you prove before it removes a listing?
Copyright desks ask for the six statements in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) and the address of every copy, and none of them requires a registration certificate. Trademark desks ask for the registration number, the jurisdiction and the owner. Patent claims face the highest bar: Amazon runs a paid evaluation for utility patents, and eBay has told a federal court that it removes patent listings when a court order arrives with the report.
| Desk | Right claimed | Where the report goes | What you supply |
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| Redbubble | Copyright, trademark, publicity | Notice and Takedown Report in the help centre | Signature, proof of ownership, the address of each listing |
| eBay | Copyright | Designated agent at [email protected], or the VeRO Portal | The six DMCA statements and the item numbers |
| eBay | Trademark, counterfeit, patent | VeRO Portal, as a Notice of Claimed Infringement | Proof that you own the right; for a patent, the patent number and usually a ruling |
| Amazon | Trademark | Report Infringement form, or Report a Violation in Brand Registry | Registration number, jurisdiction, each ASIN |
| Amazon | Utility patent | Patent Evaluation Express, through Brand Registry | Patent number and a $4,000 deposit |
| Trademark | Notice of Trademark Infringement form, or post | The fields on the form, under penalty of perjury | |
| Chrome Web Store | Copyright, trademark | Google's legal form, not the Flag Issue link | The work or mark and the extension's address |
| VK | Copyright | Form at vk.com/dmca | Contact details and documents confirming the right |
| Bandcamp | Copyright | [email protected] | DMCA statements and the track or album address |
| Substack | Copyright | Form linked from substack.com/dispute | DMCA statements; the contents are not private |
| itch.io | Copyright | [email protected] | The project address and the specific assets |
| Scribd | Copyright | scribd.com/report | The document address and your original |
| Course Hero | Copyright | Form at coursehero.com/copyright-infringement | Document addresses and proof of authorship |
| Vimeo | Copyright | Form at vimeo.com/dmca/claim | DMCA statements and the video address |
| BitChute | Copyright | [email protected] | DMCA statements, subject line "Copyright Notice" |
The table was compiled from each desk's published policy as read between 11 and 13 October 2026. Three desks refuse automated reading of their own pages, so their rows rest on secondary sources: Redbubble on MarqVision's guide and search-indexed help articles, Amazon on Red Points and Baker Botts, and Course Hero on university library guides.
The rows differ because the law behind them differs. Section 512 of the US Copyright Act protects a host from copyright damages when the host removes material on a valid notice, so a copyright desk can act on a sworn statement alone. Redbubble copyright infringement reports move without a certificate for that reason. No equivalent statute covers trademarks or patents, a gap the Center for Art Law pointed out in its March 2024 review of the Redbubble lawsuits. A marketplace that removes a listing on a trademark or patent report is applying its own policy, and wants enough proof to defend the decision if the seller objects.
How do you report Redbubble copyright infringement?
The form to report copyright infringement Redbubble provides is the Notice and Takedown Report in its help centre, and only the rights holder or an authorised representative can file one. The report needs a signature, a description of the original work with proof that the work is yours, contact details, and the address of each infringing product page. Redbubble describes the process as modelled on the DMCA.
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Collect the address of every listing
A design on Redbubble is one "work" sold on many products, and its address follows the pattern redbubble.com/people/[username]/works/[work number and name]. Copy that address for each work, and note the seller's username. A screenshot of the listing with the date visible belongs in your own file in case the page changes.
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Assemble proof that the design is yours
For Redbubble copyright infringement, MarqVision's guide to the form lists registration certificates, screenshots of the original work or other documentation. The strongest unregistered proof is the layered source file with its creation date, plus a link to the place you first published the design. Registration is not needed to send a notice, although a US registration is needed before suing in a US court.
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File the report, or send the notice by email
The form is the primary route. Third-party guides, MarqVision's among them, also give a Redbubble DMCA email address, [email protected], for a notice with a long list of addresses attached as a spreadsheet. Redbubble's own policy page could not be read for this guide, so confirm the address there before relying on it.
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Keep the confirmation and check for re-uploads
Save the acknowledgement with its date. Search Redbubble again a week later for the design's title and tags, because a removed work can return under a new account, and a new upload has a new address that the first report did not cover.
A Redbubble DMCA notice is the same document whichever way it travels: signature, the work, the copies and their addresses, contact details, a good-faith statement, and a statement of accuracy under penalty of perjury. Leave one of the six out and a Redbubble DMCA takedown stalls while the desk asks for the missing part.
Redbubble publishes no response time for Redbubble copyright infringement reports that this guide could confirm. A company statement quoted by Graphic Policy on 2 June 2014 said a complete notice leads to removal "typically within 24 hours", and MarqVision's current guide puts review at one to three business days. Treat both as reports from outside the company.
Redbubble copyright infringement rarely stays on Redbubble, because sellers advertise the stolen design elsewhere. Those copies sit on other hosts and need their own reports: TikTok's copyright report form for a video showing the product, an Instagram copyright report for a post or reel, and a DMCA notice to X for a tweet carrying the artwork.
A Redbubble copyright takedown usually ends at the work. MarqVision reports that Redbubble typically takes down the specific artwork and leaves the seller's account active unless the notice shows a pattern. Redbubble's help article on reinstatement, as indexed by search, warns artists that re-uploading removed work without first filing a counter notice can lead to action under its Repeat Infringer Policy.
Why does a Redbubble copyright takedown remove only the listings you name?
A Redbubble copyright takedown reaches the product pages listed in the notice and stops there. Redbubble has no duty to search its own catalogue for other copies, and a federal court in California said so in 2024. A notice which says that a seller has dozens of other infringing designs, without their addresses, removes none of them.
The Redbubble copyright infringement case was brought by Wallshoppe, a wallpaper maker. Its notices pointed at a seller's wider catalogue without listing it, Redbubble removed the three listings that had addresses, and Wallshoppe sued over the rest.
Wallshoppe's two notices, sent on 19 and 20 October 2021, identified three listings by address and referred to "28+ other infringing listings" and 64 other items without addresses. Redbubble removed the three.Wallster, Inc. v. Redbubble, Inc., 2024 WL 3313746 (C.D. Cal., 31 May 2024), reported by Eric Goldman, Technology & Marketing Law Blog, 7 July 2024
The court sided with Redbubble under the DMCA safe harbour. In the words quoted in Professor Goldman's report of the ruling, Redbubble "is not obligated to 'investigate' to find more potentially infringing material". Wallshoppe appealed to the Ninth Circuit, and the appeal had not been decided when that report was published.
To remove infringing designs from Redbubble in volume, the work is in the list. Search the marketplace by the design's title, its tags and the seller's username, open every result, and record one work address per line. A reverse image search finds copies that were renamed. The spreadsheet is the notice, and every row is a listing that comes down.
Padding the list in a Redbubble copyright takedown has a cost of its own. MarqVision's account of the Atari litigation says Redbubble removed 2,915 suspected listings within 24 hours and later restored more than 90% of them after artists argued that their work did not infringe. A list that mixes real copies with look-alikes gives the reviewer a reason to doubt the next one.
Outside the United States the safe harbour works differently. In Pokémon Company International v Redbubble, [2017] FCA 1541, the Federal Court of Australia found Redbubble liable for infringement on its marketplace and awarded nominal damages of one dollar. Redbubble copyright infringement claims brought in Australia follow that ruling, so take local advice before assuming the US pattern applies.
Redbubble trademark takedown: what changes when the claim is a brand name?
A Redbubble trademark takedown uses the same Notice and Takedown Report as a Redbubble copyright takedown, with different proof. The claim is that a name or logo on a product will confuse buyers about who made it, so the report identifies the mark, its registration number and jurisdiction, and the goods the mark covers. No statute sets a counter-notice clock for trademark, so Redbubble decides under its own policy.
The place to report trademark infringement Redbubble provides is that one form, and the right has to be named correctly on it. A Redbubble IP takedown can rest on copyright in artwork, a trademark in a name or logo, or publicity rights in a real person's name or face. Techdirt documented a 2016 removal letter that was framed under the DMCA although the complaint concerned a trademarked phrase, a mismatch that gives the artist an easy objection.
A Redbubble trademark infringement report is weakest where the mark is used to describe and not to brand. A shirt that says "I love" next to a city name does not use the city's sports team mark. Parody and commentary are argued the same way. Redbubble copyright infringement and trademark misuse often sit in one listing, with copied artwork on the product and the brand name in the title, and each claim is filed under its own heading. The Center for Art Law's review of the Brandy Melville appeal notes that the Ninth Circuit declined to hold Redbubble contributorily liable for infringement it did not specifically know about. In practice, your report is what creates that knowledge, one listing at a time.
A shop that poses as the brand itself, with the brand's name and logo as its avatar, often runs matching social profiles. Those are identity claims and go to other forms, starting with a report against the impersonating Instagram account.
How do you report a listing on eBay for infringement?
To report a listing on eBay for infringement you must own the right or act for the owner, because eBay's Verified Rights Owner programme, VeRO, accepts reports only from rights owners and their authorised representatives. A copyright notice can also go to eBay's designated agent. Trademark, counterfeit and patent claims go through the VeRO Portal as a Notice of Claimed Infringement.
Approximately 75,000 intellectual property rights owners are enrolled in eBay's Verified Rights Owner programme, and eBay says it proactively removed about 7.9 million potentially counterfeit or prohibited items in 2025.eBay, 2025 Global Transparency Report
Copyright and stolen photos
To report copyright infringement on eBay, send the six DMCA statements to the designated agent named on eBay's VeRO page: [email protected], or eBay Designated Agent, 339 West 13490 South, Suite 500, Draper, UT 84020. The page says that concerns other than copyright "must be reported using the VeRO Portal".
To report stolen photos on eBay listing pages, claim copyright in the photographs. Give the item number, say which images are yours, and link to the page where you first published them. eBay's page says a removed listing can be reinstated if the seller "corrects the issue", so a photo claim does not stop the seller from offering the same product with new pictures.
Trademark and counterfeits
To report trademark infringement on eBay, file through the VeRO Portal with proof that you own the mark. The VeRO page lists items that are "counterfeit, fakes, or replicas" among reportable listings. eBay notifies the seller with an explanation, and repeated violations can lead to selling restrictions or suspension. Red Points' 2026 guide adds that VeRO does not cover pricing disputes or the resale of genuine goods by unauthorised sellers.
Patents
To report patent infringement on eBay, a Notice of Claimed Infringement with the patent number is the starting point, and it is often not enough. In Blazer v. eBay, decided in the Northern District of Alabama in 2017, eBay explained that it removes listings quickly when the notice arrives with a court order and rarely on an allegation alone, because eBay cannot construe patent claims or examine products it never holds. Finnegan's summary of the decision records that the patent owner never supplied an order and lost.
eBay's current VeRO page does not mention patents. Treat the court-order practice as eBay's stated position in that litigation, and ask the VeRO team at [email protected] what the team requires now before paying for a filing.
How do you report trademark infringement on Amazon?
To report trademark infringement on Amazon, use the public Report Infringement form at amazon.com/report/infringement or, for an enrolled brand, the Report a Violation tool inside Brand Registry. Both ask for the trademark registration number, its jurisdiction and the ASIN of each listing. Copyright, trademark and patent claims are filed separately, and Red Points' 2026 guide warns that inaccurate reports can cost a filer its reporting privileges.
The public form works from any Amazon account. Red Points states that a registered trademark is generally required and that a pending application does not satisfy the standard form. Brand Registry adds batch submissions and tracking, which is what most guides mean by "report brand infringement Amazon". A copied product photo or description is a copyright claim on the same form, and needs no registration.
Patents run on a separate track called Amazon Patent Evaluation Express, or APEX. A neutral patent attorney decides whether the owner is likely to prove infringement, without discovery and on short written briefs.
Each party to an APEX evaluation deposits $4,000, and the winning side's deposit is refunded. A seller who declines to take part has the accused products removed.Baker Botts, client update on the Amazon Patent Evaluation Express programme, 1 September 2022
APEX accepts US utility patents only. Red Points says design patents are reported through the public form under "Other" and that one APEX request can name up to 20 ASINs. The two sources disagree on speed: Baker Botts put a decision at 14 to 16 weeks in 2022, and Red Points' 2026 guide gives an average nearer seven weeks. Amazon's own help page returned an error when checked for this guide, so both figures are second-hand.
Where do you report trademark infringement on LinkedIn and the Chrome Web Store?
To report trademark infringement LinkedIn provides a Notice of Trademark Infringement form, and a postal notice carrying the same fields is accepted. Google handles Chrome Web Store claims through a legal form that is separate from the Flag Issue link on the extension's page. Both desks want the mark, the exact address of the page or extension, and a statement the filer will stand behind.
LinkedIn's notice page says a notice "must be truthful and must be submitted under penalty of perjury". The same page says LinkedIn "may make a good faith attempt to forward the written notice", contact information included, to the member who posted the content. The page does not list the form's fields. UpGuard's takedown guide advises having the registration number, jurisdiction, owner name and a registry link ready.
LinkedIn's Community Report shows how copyright notices fare and says nothing about trademark. Between July and December 2025 the report counts 2,955 copyright removal requests with 95% of reported infringements removed, and no trademark figures are published. A profile that pretends to be you or your staff is neither claim, and the route is the one for having a fake LinkedIn profile removed.
Chrome Web Store
The route to report Chrome extension trademark violation claims is Google's legal form. Google's help page on flagging separates the two: Flag Issue is for breaches of the store's terms, and a copyright or trademark claim goes to the form. Name the extension's store address, the registered mark, and where the mark appears: the title, the icon or the screenshots.
Developers on the receiving end should check that a notice is real. Daily Security Review reported on 4 June 2026 that Malwarebytes had found phishing emails imitating Chrome Web Store copyright notices. A real notice arrives through the developer dashboard and does not ask for a password.
Wherever you report trademark infringement, four items recur: the mark as registered, the registration number and office, the goods or services the registration covers, and the address where the mark is being used.
Bandcamp, Substack, itch.io, Scribd and Course Hero: what does a copyright report need?
These five desks take a standard DMCA notice and none asks for a registration. Bandcamp and itch.io take email, Substack and Course Hero publish forms, and Scribd uses a report page. The proof that carries the report is the same at each one: the address of the copy, the address or file of your original, and a date showing that yours came first.
Bandcamp
The page to report copyright infringement Bandcamp publishes is bandcamp.com/copyright, and notices go to [email protected]. Musicians who report copyright violation to Bandcamp should give the track or album address and the release it copies, with the distributor's release date if there is one. Bandcamp's policy treats an account with more than two notices against it as a repeat infringer.
Substack
The form to report copyright infringement Substack provides is linked from substack.com/dispute, a page last updated on 19 February 2025. The page warns that "Information submitted in notices is not private". A post removed on a notice can be restored ten business days after the writer disputes it, unless the filer starts legal action.
itch.io
To report copyright infringement itch.io asks for an email to [email protected]. Name the project page and the specific sprites, tracks or code files, and link to where each asset was first released. itch.io keeps takedown notices on public pages under itch.io/takedowns. Ripped builds and asset packs often circulate in chat communities before they reach a storefront, and the steps for reporting the Discord server that shares them are separate.
Scribd
To report copyright infringement on Scribd, use the page at scribd.com/report. Scribd's newsroom said on 29 April 2026 that reported documents are reviewed "within a few days", and that its BookID system fingerprints removed works to block the same file from returning. Authors should give the document address and the ISBN or first-publication link.
Course Hero
Instructors who report Course Hero copyright problems use the form at coursehero.com/copyright-infringement or write to [email protected], according to university library guides; Course Hero's own page does not load for automated readers. The proof is the original file with its date, or the syllabus that contains the material. A student's own notes from a lecture generally belong to the student.
Vimeo, BitChute and VK: where does a video or music notice go?
To report copyright infringement on Vimeo, use the claim form at vimeo.com/dmca/claim or write to [email protected]. BitChute takes an email to [email protected] with the subject line "Copyright Notice". VK, the Russian social network, takes a form at vk.com/dmca and asks for documents confirming the right, which is more than a US host's sworn statement requires.
Vimeo
Vimeo's DMCA page sets a three-strike rule for uploaders and restores a video ten business days after a counter-notice unless the filer goes to court. The page also says Vimeo may disclose notices to third-party databases, so the text of a notice should be fit to be read by others.
BitChute
To report copyright infringement BitChute needs the standard statements and each video address in the body of the email. People search for a way to "report BitChute to copyright team" staff, and that email is the whole route; there is no form. BitChute's copyright policy says the filer's contact details are passed to the uploader.
VK
To remove copyright content from VK, fill in the form at vk.com/dmca. VK's guide for authors, dated 12 July 2019, asks for contact details and documents confirming the right, and gives licence agreements, extracts from the Russian Authors' Society or WIPO, and links to official sources as examples. A designer is told to submit layouts and source files, and a brand owner the trademark certificate. The guide states no response time.
The same guide says VK will not hand over a community owner's identity, citing personal data law. Its duplicate detector, Nemesis, penalises repeated uploads and does not decide who the author is. Files from VK are often mirrored elsewhere: channels take copyright complaints to Telegram, and an account that sells the files is handled by reporting the Telegram user or channel.
When is an intellectual property report the wrong tool?
An intellectual property report is the wrong tool when nothing you own was copied. A fake profile using your name is impersonation, abuse aimed at you is harassment, and a false statement about your business is defamation. Each has its own form. An IP report filed in place of one is rejected, and a false copyright notice exposes the filer to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).
A seller who clones a shop name usually clones the social profiles too. Those are identity claims: the forms for reporting a fake Facebook account and for an impersonation report on X ask who you are, not what you registered. A single post that reuses your product photo is copyright. A single post that insults you is a conduct matter, and reporting the tweet under X's rules is the route.
Several desks pass the notice to the other side. BitChute forwards the filer's contact details, Substack says notices are not private and LinkedIn may forward the complainant's information, so plan for contact from the seller. Messages that turn abusive are a separate complaint: a Facebook harassment report, the steps for reporting someone on Snapchat, or an abuse report to the host of a standalone site.
What can a takedown service prove for you, and what can it not?
A takedown service can compile the address list, file as your authorised agent so that the agent's contact details travel with the notice, and file again when copies return. A service cannot supply the right itself. The copyright has to be yours, the trademark has to be registered to you, and the sworn statement is made on your behalf.
Filing is free at every desk in this guide except APEX. Paying someone makes sense in three situations: a Redbubble copyright infringement problem that runs to hundreds of listings, a seller who returns under new accounts, or copies spread across several desks with different proof rules. What each desk shows the seller about the filer is compared in the guide to what a notice puts on record.
No service decides the outcome of a Redbubble copyright takedown or of a report to any other desk, and an offer of guaranteed removal in a fixed number of hours is a reason to walk away. Clearline's content removal casework starts with a written assessment of which listings a report can reach, what proof each desk will ask for, and which copies will stay up.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a Redbubble DMCA email address?
Third-party guides, including MarqVision's, list [email protected] for notices sent by email. Redbubble's own policy page could not be read for this guide, so check the address on the IP/Publicity Rights Policy before sending. The Notice and Takedown Report in the help centre is the primary route for reporting Redbubble copyright infringement, and it takes the same information.
Do I need a registered copyright or trademark to file a report?
Not for copyright. A DMCA notice rests on your sworn statement that you own the work, and none of the copyright desks in this guide asks for a certificate. Trademark is different: Amazon's standard form generally requires a registered mark, and guides to the LinkedIn and eBay routes advise having the registration number and jurisdiction ready.
How long does a Redbubble copyright takedown take?
Redbubble publishes no deadline that this guide could confirm. A 2014 company statement quoted by Graphic Policy said complete notices lead to removal typically within 24 hours, and MarqVision's current guide says one to three business days. The law requires a host to act expeditiously and sets no number of days, so a Redbubble copyright takedown has no guaranteed timing.
Can a customer or fan report Redbubble copyright infringement?
A customer can flag the listing with the report icon on the product page, and that is all. A formal Notice and Takedown Report is accepted only from the rights holder or an authorised representative. The useful step for a fan is to send the listing address to the artist, who can file the notice that Redbubble acts on.
What happens if the seller files a counter notice?
For a copyright claim, US law lets the host restore the listing 10 to 14 business days after a valid counter-notice unless you file a court action and tell the host. Redbubble's Counter Notice FAQ asks the artist for a full name, contact details, the work's address, an explanation and evidence. Trademark and patent disputes have no statutory clock, and the desk decides under its own policy.
Not sure what your report has to prove?
Send the listing addresses and say what you own: the artwork, the registered mark or the patent. The review sets out which desk takes each claim, what proof each one asks for, and which listings a report will not reach.