How do I prevent people from copying my designs?

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#1

I’m a clothing designer on Roblox, I’m relatively small still and don’t earn a lot from my designs but I appreciate being able to see and wear my creations on Roblox.

One issue that I have most recently faced is other players somehow finding a way to have access to the template via the asset, then reuploading that template and calling that their own creation. This is extremely infuriating to me knowing that someone else is allowed to steal what I spent countless hours on, and to earn profit off of that.

Recently another player gained access to my templates, and reuploaded that onto a copycat group, where they acted if they were the original creators, but what really bothers me is they went out of their way to take every single one of my designs and steal them, instead of just taking a few. Here is my group: Tsuki 月 - Roblox , and here is the group that copied my designs TSUKI Market - Roblox .

I made a customer support ticket about this to see if Roblox can potentially take down the group, but I don’t know what to do if more groups like this appear, and more and more people copy my designs to turn a profit on what isn’t theirs.

A possible solution I think for this would be to introduce a copylocking system, where when the template is originally uploaded creators can select a box, that will ensure that only the original render of the template can be uploaded by it’s first uploader, and if anyone else attempts to upload it after that, it will be content deleted. (Of course anyone could slightly alter the template and reupload it, but this offers a temporary solution potentially eliminating a large portion of copied templates).

If anyone has any suggestions for what I should do about my situation, or about how to prevent copied templates please feel free to let me know in the comments.

EDIT:
I directly reported all the copied assets a few weeks ago,
I then made a customer support ticket where they redirected me to roblox’s copyright agent.
I sent a full, and detailed summary of what happened including links of the assets that were my UGC.
It’s been 3 weeks since contacting the copyright agent and I have gotten no response, and the copied clothing still haven’t been taken down.
I’m not sure what to do at this point.

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#2

the owner of the group got banned if you go on the group that stole and click on the owner of it it says page 404 not found

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#3

This problem comes up a lot, however the best thing you can do is to report them. The current asset system is flawed and allows other players to easily access other players uploaded creations and publish them as their own. This is also the reason why the catalog is currently in the state of thousands of the same clothing being uploaded.

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#4

Pete, you’ve nailed it on the head.

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#5

It’s a never ending issue, since its so easy to just get the template. The only real solution is adding a watermark somewhere, and reporting the person copying your design.

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#6

I really appreciate your hard work. I had a friend that made clothing but got banned as he got mass/spam reported as a joke. As there is not much I can do to help your current situation. I’ll just boost your confidence. Keep up the good work and even if other people steal your work, you’ll always know you’re the original creator in your heart. :smiley:

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#7

You can’t.

Due to ROBLOX’s asset system, any player can download your clothes template simply by typing a link into their browser. The only way to prevent them is to get the assets removed. If you can prove to ROBLOX that the assets were stolen, then you may manually report each of them, but it doesn’t seem worth the time.

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#8

As said before the best solution is to post somewhere watermark on the clothing, somewhere where it will fit and it would look like part of the clothing.

#9

So far, as of right now, the only thing to do is to manually report the image. In my personal opinion, ROBLOX should use a AI PHOTO SCANNER that can detect images that were stolen from another user(s).

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#10

AS much as I love this idea, I don’t really think it’s exactly feasible.

The amount of workload that is going to be put onto it will require a lot of resources, since clothing bots upload clothes around the clock, the AI will have to go through each of them while simultaneously check through every single clothing in it’s database. Computers are fast, but if you put to much tasks its bound to slow down a lot. (Even if they deploy multiple AI just to check through a lot, depleting the workload for each AI by a wide margin, there are still thousands of botted clothing companies making clothing, and more spawning in each day.)

As much as I hate the millions of copied clothing that makes up a large majority of the catalog, Roblox cannot really do anything about it unless they nuke the entire thing and start from scratch or make certain creators be able to make clothing (similar to UGC).

#11

Right now in its current state, clothing creation is one of the worst professions to get into on roblox. If I where you I would try to get developers to hire you to make custom shirts/pants. (Many RPG’s will use custom clothing.) Since clothing design also requires art skills you could try getting into doing logo’s etc.

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#12

They literality made a bot that managed to check over a decade of audio content for anything copyrighted in a month or less.

So…

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#13

Okay, thank you this really helps, I already uploaded watermarks onto all of my templates with my username and the date it was created, so hopefully I should be able to take down copycats.

#14

I don’t mean to be pessimistic in any way here, but a skilled enough thief can and will manipulate the template around the item you’ve made to make it look as if it’s their own still.

The best example I can give you is when I recently went back and remastered one of 1blox’s hoodies. Even though I recreated the whole shirt from scratch, the similarities would look as though I still directly copied the item.image
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Simply put, there is no current way to stop anybody from copying any clothing asset on Roblox right now.

From my knowledge, the company is well aware of this problem (hell, they even joked about it at RDC last year during the unveiling of UGC), yet they continue to let the catalog to fall further and further into disrepair. Its honestly quite sad to see, and has caused a good amount of the users who used to make clothing for fun (as you are yourself) to leave the platform.

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#15

This problem has caused countless people to leave the ROBLOX platform. There is no way to stop this from happening unless if you report the stolen asset.

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#16

Even if you reported you won’t get your right unfortunately…

#17

Can you try to send a request again yo copy agent and they will reply you I’m sure about that

#18

So, how people do this is that they install something on the Google Chromestore called BTRoblox. The extension lets them see the asset image so they can steal the shirt template.

#19

Yup and a lot of methods let them do that…

#20

you do know that they can hide the original watermark and put their own watermark on the stolen asset.

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