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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod

Designer sues Australian Shopify over alleged ghost stores he claims copied his work 3,929 times

The Shopify logo displayed on a laptop computer
An Australian poster designer is suing Shopify for allegedly refusing to take down online ‘ghost stores’ he says imitated his website. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A young poster designer is suing Shopify in Australia for allegedly refusing to take down two online “ghost stores” he claims imitated his website and stole his work.

Ryan Billington, 20, launched copyright infringement proceedings in the federal circuit court in Brisbane earlier this month against the multinational e-commerce company and two websites he alleges stole “substantially all” his designs.

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