Corp Theft Mayan Textiles Designs Rampant

Corp Theft of Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs is Rampant and is everywhere online in e-commerce stores making claims of Corp Support of the Weaving Co-Operatives of Guatemala. You will find online numerous articles about the fight against the Mayan weavers opposing corporate theft of their patterns without the support of the Guatemalan Government Tourism Association and Courts.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala was formed to present Mayan Textiles Designs direct to a world market eliminating those that have used or taken the designs without the permission of the creators. Corp Theft of Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs is also a crime, in fact, in some cases, it can be considered a criminal act as many of the websites selling Mayan Textiles Designs do not collect US sales tax and avoid Duty and Customs on these Textile products entering the US by claiming these products are gifts.

How will Ethical Fashion Guatemala stop the Corp Theft of Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs when the Weavers themselves have failed to gain the support of their needs in Guatemala?

Corp Theft Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs

Corp Theft of Guatemalan Mayan Textiles

Any picture, photograph, or product description used online without the owner’s permission is subject to The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The DMCA offers a service in which the owner of Any picture, photograph, or product description used online without the owner’s written permission can be removed from the website, or in some cases, the website itself can be taken down in its entirety.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala will begin using the DMCA to take action against several websites that are in clear violation of the terms of use of various Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs owned by the Woman-owned Weaving Co-Operatives throughout Guatemala.

Corp Theft Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs Rampant Etsy

Esty is a website that features Handmade products, one will find hundreds of Esty stores selling Guatemalan handmade products including Mayan Textiles Designs. Etsy takes this kind of Corp. Theft seriously. This page contains information to answer common questions artists may have about copyright and intellectual property.

To inform Etsy that someone on Etsy.com is infringing upon your intellectual property, please refer to Intellectual Property Policy. If you own an Etsy store and have Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs, Ethical Fashion Guatemala will be contacting you asking for proof of ownership and permission to use copies and photos of Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs in your store. If you fail to produce proof of ownership Ethical Fashion Guatemala will notify Etsy of this fact.

Corp Theft Guatemalan Mayan Textiles Designs

Online retailers rely on Google search results as one of the key tools for selling online. Google also protects individuals and offers a means to Report alleged copyright infringement which will result in your Photo, Image, and Copy being removed from Google search results for an Online retailer this is death to a website selling products.

It is Google’s policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found on the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site,

http://www.copyright.gov) and other applicable intellectual property laws.

Google’s response may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and/or terminating subscribers.

If we remove or disable access in response to such a notice, we may notify the owner or administrator of the affected site or content so that he or she can make a counter-notification. It is also our policy to document all notices of alleged infringement on which we act, including by sending a copy of the notice to one or more third parties or making it available to the public.

You can see an example of such a publication at http://lumendatabase.org/notices/861.

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