A hijacked listing photo, and copyright flags gone overnight

A Naruto t-shirt photo went live as the main image of a seller's speaker listing, and Amazon flagged copyright image misuse. By the next afternoon the flags were gone from the dashboard.

Amazon US and Amazon.caHijacked listing photosSeptember 2024

copyright flags, 2 Sep 2024: 3
to 0, screen clock to screen clock: 19 h 39 min
a second store, Amazon.ca: 8 → 1

Shilpi DudaniFounder, AVA INC. · 3 October 2026

At a glanceCopyright flags gone from the dashboard overnight, after a speaker listing was hijacked.Summary slide, no screenshot
A speaker listing, live with a t-shirt photoThe listing was hijacked: a Naruto t-shirt photo went live on it, and Amazon flagged copyright misuse.Seller Central and the listing page, Amazon US, Sep 2024. Brand and ASIN hidden
A second store, Amazon.ca: 8 → 1The same Naruto image, flagged on eight listings. By 18 Sep one was left, and Amazon had removed it.Seller Central, Amazon.ca, and Amazon's 1 Sep notice. Store name, brand and ASIN hidden

The problem

On 2 September 2024 a seller's Amazon US speaker listing was live with a Naruto t-shirt photo as its main image. Amazon flagged three listings for copyright image misuse, each at risk of removal, with issues to be addressed by 3 September.

What we did

We worked the copyright flags on the store and checked the Account Health page and the flagged list, with the screen clock, until the count read zero.

The result

At 1:38 pm on 3 September the Account Health count read 0, 19 hours 39 minutes after the 3 at 5:59 pm the day before, and the list read "Zero policy violation warnings". On a second store, on Amazon.ca, the same image was flagged on eight listings; by 18 September one was left, and Amazon had removed it.