When someone steals your art or music and sells it on marketplaces, print-on-demand sites, streaming services, or social platforms, we help you get organised, file the right takedown, and chase the removal.
In the UK, US, and most of the world, copyright is automatic — it exists the moment you create something original. No registration, no forms, no © symbol. If you drew it, recorded it, photographed it, composed it, or designed it, it's yours.
Not legal advice — but it's the default position under copyright law in most of the world, grounded in the Berne Convention.
Paste the link to your original artwork, track, or release.
Etsy, Amazon, Redbubble, Spotify, SoundCloud, TikTok, Shopify — any URL.
A clean, copy-paste copyright complaint, ready to send.
We show the exact form, email, or escalation route for each platform.
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No. Copyright is automatic — it exists the moment you create original work. You don't need to register, file anything, or use the © symbol for a takedown request to be valid. Registration (e.g. with the US Copyright Office) adds legal firepower for suing over damages, but it's not required to request removal.
Yes, free. No sign-up, no account, no email required. Your cases are saved in your own browser's local storage — nothing is sent to a server. Clear your browser and it's gone. (Proper save-and-share will come later if we add sign-in.)
Yes — when you target the right platform. Under the DMCA (US) and equivalent laws like the EU Digital Services Act, platforms must respond to valid copyright notices. Our directory gives you the exact official form for each service, and the escalation playbook shows you what to do if the first report is ignored.
No. TakeItDown.art is a workflow tool — it helps you organise evidence and generate a properly-formatted takedown message. For complex cases, repeat infringement, or commercial disputes, consult a lawyer.
Yes. The directory covers both — marketplaces (Etsy, Amazon, Redbubble), print-on-demand (Society6, Zazzle, TeePublic), streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp), music distributors (DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, Ditto), and social platforms. The takedown message template works for any copyrighted work.
Climb the stack. The escalation playbook walks through four tiers: the listing → the fulfilment layer (POD backends for art, distributors for music) → infrastructure (hosts, registrars, Cloudflare) → payment processors (Stripe, PayPal) as the nuclear option.
It varies. Most marketplaces respond within 1–5 business days. Social platforms usually within 3–7. Infrastructure and payment processors take longer — 1–3 weeks. Each platform guide shows typical response times.
The DMCA is a US law, but the vast majority of platforms (even non-US ones) follow the same process because their US operations require it. UK creators use the same form, with the same information, at every major platform. For EU users, the Digital Services Act provides parallel rights.
67 platforms across marketplaces, POD, music, social, hosts, and payment processors — with the report form and fallback email for each.
The fastest takedown isn't always at the listing. When a platform ignores you — or the same stolen work is on a dozen storefronts — go up the stack:
1. The listing. File on the platform itself (Etsy, Redbubble, Spotify, TikTok). Start here, but don't stop here.
2. The fulfilment layer — one report, many platforms gone.
• Visual art: POD backends — Printful, Printify, Gelato, Gooten. Most Shopify/Etsy storefronts use one.
• Music: distributors — DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, Ditto Music. Pulls the track from every streaming service.
• Shopify storefronts: Shopify's DMCA form acts faster than most store owners will.
3. Infrastructure. If the infringing site is on a custom domain, hit the host (AWS, DigitalOcean), domain registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap), or CDN (Cloudflare). Under DMCA safe-harbour law, hosts have to respond.
4. Payment processors — the nuclear option. Reporting to Stripe or PayPal freezes the seller's ability to collect money. Slow to action, but devastating against repeat infringers. Keep this for when the usual routes have failed.
Reminder: if you made the work, you already own the copyright — no registration or © symbol needed. Read more.