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  <description>Trademark and copyright risk for Shopify merchants and dropshippers. General information, not legal advice.</description>
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      <title>Why Shopify takes down listings for trademark and copyright</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a rights holder's complaint reaches your store, what Shopify does with it, and why repeat complaints put the whole store at risk.</description>
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      <title>Licensed characters you cannot sell without a license</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Disney, Sanrio, Bluey, Pokémon and the rest: why character merchandise is licensed, how to tell licensed stock from knock-offs, and what "fan art" does not change.</description>
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      <title>Designer prints are trademarks too</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Burberry check, the LV monogram and Gucci's GG work as trademarks even with no logo in sight. Why a pattern can be protected and how look-alikes get caught.</description>
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      <title>What to do after a DMCA or trademark complaint on Shopify</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The first hours after a notice: what to read, what to remove, when a counter-notice makes sense and when it does not, and how to stop the next one.</description>
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      <title>Shopify Payments holds after IP complaints</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why intellectual-property complaints can lead to reserves or held payouts, what usually helps, and how to lower the odds of it happening.</description>
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      <title>How to vet supplier photos from AliExpress, Temu and 1688 before importing</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A practical routine for checking every image a supplier gives you, including the third and fourth photos where most problems hide.</description>
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      <title>"Inspired by" vs infringing: where the line usually falls</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Style is free, copying is not. How likelihood of confusion and substantial similarity work in plain terms, and why "inspired by" in a title does not protect you.</description>
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      <title>How AI image scanning for trademarks works, and its limits</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What an image model can and cannot recognise, why it gets things wrong in both directions, and how to use a scanner without trusting it blindly.</description>
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