Caernarfon card designer will get copyright designs on Temu once more

A card designer says she “lost a lot of money” after her copyrighted work once more appeared on large on-line retailer Teemu.

Annwen Williams, who makes Welsh-language playing cards and presents for Drenog, based mostly in Caernarfon in Gwynedd, stated she first observed a few 12 months in the past that her concepts had been being copied and bought with out her permission.

He complained to teemuWhich launched a brand new checking system, however has since seen counterfeit variations of its designs seem on the market once more.

Teemu stated it reviewed Drenog's declare and instantly eliminated the merchandise in query.

Following Ms Williams' complaints final 12 months, Teemu launched a brand new system for the greetings card business, which it stated would pace up the method of eradicating copied objects from the platform and stop them from being re-uploaded.

Previously every case needed to be reported individually, however Teemu stated his expertise would now work with an instance and take away any merchandise with comparable designs.

But this week Ms Williams observed that her copyrighted designs had been as soon as once more showing on Teemu.

Ms Williams stated: “I found a card of one of my designs on Teemu. They managed to remove what I saw.

“But today I got the card once again on the second edition of TEMU operating in Canada.”

He added, “So I don't know if other versions of the card are on sale in other countries, or even here in the UK.

“It is very difficult to know how long the designs have been on Teemu and how many have actually been sold.

“Those are cards that sell well for me, so I potentially lost a lot of money.

“It's definitely taking up a lot of my time where I could be focusing on things that are much more important to my business, because it takes a lot of time to solve the problem.”

Dr Robert Bowen, an economist at Cardiff University, stated companies had been shedding “millions of pounds” over such points.

“Certainly smaller businesses face more challenges in terms of copying designs, because they have a lot less resources, less staff, less money to be able to put in processes that can protect what's going on.”

Joshua Miles, head of the Federation of Small Business Wales, stated platforms like Teemu wanted to do extra.

“Online platforms are now essential lifelines for many small businesses across Wales, yet problems such as intellectual property theft and ineffective dispute resolution leave businesses exposed and exploited,” he stated.

“We know of businesses here in Wales who are being suffocated by the flood of counterfeit versions of their products online.”

Teemu stated it reviewed Drenog's declare and instantly eliminated the product in query.

It says, “Over 99% of all requests are resolved within three business days – the majority within just 24 hours.”