Unlicensed items

[Darklord Dave]

The rule is, "We remove things when we're asked to."

I have to assume it's Sideshow directly asking for these things to be removed and not Hot Toys, as Hot Toys seems to not give a ______ about unlicensed and knock-off stuff, as evidenced by the accusations that all these "custom made" Hot Toys sculpts are in fact, second runs direct from Hot Toys' factory, and not recasts. My thought is that Sideshow is asking for threads to be removed when it can impact their ability to sell Hot Toys stuff. The Ledger sculpt thread remains because Joker 2.0 is sold out, so that's done, no impact to them. The iminime Han thread will likely have an impact on the DX Han Solo, so it's removed.

Personally, if only for the First World Anarchist side of me, I would like to see the Customs community move to OSW, which doesn't rely on Sideshow affiliate sales, to see if the admins there would respond to takedown requests. I'd imagine they would, but. . . it would be fun to see.

Hot Toys DOES care - I've gotten requests directly from them as well.
OSW does have affiliate sales - and any and all forums/websites that support bootlegs are targeted. Even if they aren't affiliates, a little letter from the lawyer usually does the trick.

 

[**16k**]

Someone from China or Europe should create a forum in English, the the c and d wouldn't matter as we all know they can only reach so far. China is the paradise of counterfeiting, and even HT can't prevent their own stuff from being recast!:lol

 

[dragonsleeper]

Personally, if only for the First World Anarchist side of me, I would like to see the Customs community move to OSW, which doesn't rely on Sideshow affiliate sales, to see if the admins there would respond to takedown requests. I'd imagine they would, but. . . it would be fun to see.

I haven't heard anything of that sort in OSW, it seem it's mostly everything goes and they almost always ignore requests for takedown from licensors...

 

[SwedishHeat]

I haven't heard anything of that sort in OSW, it seem it's mostly everything goes and they almost always ignore requests for takedown from licensors...

Do they ignore them, or do they just not get any? I'm thinking it's the latter.

They have only a sliver of the traffic of SSF, and don't have any of the infringing sales aspect, as far as customs sales go. So, OSW isn't really a thorn in anyone's side. OSW is pretty quick to call BS when an expensive custom figure shows up, so it would be difficult if people moved over there.