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Apparently Temu is the most common site for shopping online. Some people have been succesful in making Temu stop selling copies of their work.
It might get to a stage where no one can put any art or photos online at all.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/kiwi...-sold-temu
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Thread: Kiwi artists work ripped off,sold on Temu
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04-03-2025, 05:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2025, 05:58 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
This happens constantly. I had a piece on TM a few years back, a copy showed up a month or so later, the buyer emailed me to ask if I had made prints, I hadn't. But someone had taken the image, printed it onto canvases, painted a glue layer over it to make it look like an original and was selling it at slightly less that I got for the original. I wasn't the only artist that happened to. I believe TM banned the guy, but I have no doubt that was temporary. Then there are the knitwear designers on Instagram, some scandi knitters I follow have actually bought their own stolen designs and put up reels critiquing the copies for yarn quality, sizing stuff ups and other differences.
Chinese sellers are design thieves. And there is absolutely nothing that can be done to stop them. Which is why more and more of us are not buying from Temu or Shein, or any of the others.
But, the truth is, there are copyists everywhere. Nothing is original. The art market is as corrupt as hell, galleryists are parasites, critics ditto.it is a soul destroying occupation. But it is great fun and deeply satisfying to make stuff, and give it away. A little subversive too, lol...
Btw Jan, don't use the cross bar of that desk as a footrest. It is the softest fibreboard and can't take the weight. I was given a similar one to use for my typewriter, perfect for the job until that bit broke and the machine and all my journalling stuff ended up in my lap, lol. I replaced it with a bit of pine decking offcut I had stashed, and it is fine now. The metal frame is really sturdy, and after I replaced the bolts that hold the top to the legs It works beautifully. It probably came from somewhere like Temu, I didn't ask, lol. Too useful, and free - the best price ever!
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