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Shein is now copying Temu’s copyright lawsuit
The girls are fighting!
Shein began selling in the US in 2017, and was followed by Temu in 2022, as part of a race to the bottom from online retailers including Amazon. Both are using a trade loophole, the de minimus exceptio n, that means packages worth less than $800 entering the US from China are duty-free. Shein itself is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that it’s engaged in “industrial-scale scheme of systematic, digital copyright infringement of the work of small designers and artists.” It has also been sued by For Love and Lemons, H&M, Levi Strauss, and Uniqlo, among others.
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