Report a pattern
If someone is selling your work on Loopstore without permission, tell us and we will look at it. You do not need a lawyer to file this.
What happens next
We read every report. Where a listing is clearly a copy of work you own, we take it down and tell the designer why. Where it is less clear, we will ask both of you for more before deciding. Repeat infringement costs a shop its account.
What helps
- A link to the listing on Loopstore.
- A link to where your original is published, or the date you first released it.
- What specifically was copied — the whole pattern, the photographs, the text.
Please be sure
A crochet technique cannot be owned, and two designers can arrive at a similar granny square honestly. Copyright protects the way a pattern is written and the photographs of it, not the idea of a bear in a scarf. Filing a report you know to be false can make you liable for the other designer’s losses.
If you are the one reported
We will tell you what was claimed and give you a chance to respond before anything permanent happens, unless the infringement is unambiguous.