Print-on-Demand Sellers Editing and Proofreading Services

A shop selling forty designs receives a takedown notice on one of them. The design uses a phrase the seller saw on three other shops and assumed was common property; it is registered. The listing goes, and so does the shop, because the platform's account-level strikes do not distinguish between a deliberate infringer and somebody who did not know.

We edit what print-on-demand sellers write — originality and rights declarations, design source and licence records, responses to takedown notices and account appeals, product descriptions and size guidance, licensing agreements for commissioned artwork, shop policies, and the correspondence with platforms about a suspended account. Our editors work on documents that decide whether a shop survives a complaint.

The record of where a design came from is what saves a print-on-demand shop, and its failure is a folder of files with no provenance. A seller who cannot show where a design came from cannot answer a notice. We work through these so every design carries a record of its origin — drawn by whom, on what date, from what reference, or bought under what licence with the licence number and its terms — since a takedown answered within hours with evidence is usually reinstated and one answered with an assertion is not; so purchased assets are recorded with what the licence actually permits, because most stock licences exclude exactly the use print-on-demand makes of them and the seller discovers this only when challenged; so any phrase or slogan is checked and the check is recorded with its date, given that phrases are registrable and "I saw it on other shops" is the reason most sellers give and the reason none of them wins; so commissioned work has a written transfer of rights rather than an invoice, as paying a designer does not by itself buy the copyright; so the response to a notice is factual and prompt, without argument about fairness, since the platform is not a tribunal; so a counter-notice is only made where the seller genuinely holds the right, because a false one escalates a listing problem into an account problem; so the shop's own policy on how it handles claims is written down; and so nothing is uploaded that the seller could not evidence within an hour. Records kept this way keep a shop trading.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including designs, licences, platform correspondence and material relating to disputes. We are editors rather than lawyers or intellectual property advisers, and we give no legal advice and no view on rights, infringement or any claim. What we can do is make sure you can show where a design came from.