Okay, so if anyone could weigh in here it would be a great help, I recently have had someone come forward and let me know temu was selling a kit using my Orange dragon crochet pattern. I’m not sure wether they used just the picture of the dragon or included the pattern since I wasn’t able to find it, but this kind person did let me know they seen it on temu! Again, I have not been able to find it but if you can and see it please screen shot it and send it my way!
From this point on I will no longer be having my patterns as free/ free for 24hours since I’m not sure where they would have gotten my pattern from. I would ASSUME instagram but I personally sent everyone the link so I would seriously hope it wasn’t a fellow crocheter.
That being said if it was instagram I feel bad having to do this to my shop followers on here but I’m honestly not sure what to do here, this is definitely a first for me and has me confused as to what next steps I should take?
Update: I removed the picture since I forgot to mark out the bottom bar with their name!! Thankfully it wasn’t my picture/ pattern but one that looked similar. I also want to thank the people who decided to comment and help, I’m not sure how to close a chat but I did feel the need to give an update, once again thank you to everyone 
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Omg that’s horrible if they took your pattern I’ll look when I get a chance
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Yes! Since I haven’t been able to find it hopefully the took it down/ doesn’t exists but I don’t want to discredit someone, especially when they were kind enough to send a concerning message so I’m really hoping they just took it down! 
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Btw the chat bar says their name if u wanna keep them anonymous
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You would need to file a DCMA (digital millennium copyright act) takedown notice with Temu if you find that your picture or your pattern has been sold without your permission. I refuse to use Temu so you will have to find out how to contact Temu to find out how to do this. More than likely they have a specific email address or snail mail address to send your take down request to.
https://www.temu.com/intellectual-property-complaint.html?_bg_fs=1&_x_sessn_id=saoey42c2o&refer_page_name=intellectual-property-policy&refer_page_id=19457_1730124876478_pnd1e2kk5a&refer_page_sn=19457
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OMG I didn’t even notice, thank you for that !
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Thank you for taking the time to comment, thankfully it wasn’t my pattern but for the future thanks to you, I will know the steps if this were to happen in the future! 
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It is difficult to search Temu itself for information as it has so many pop ups.
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Agreed, personal never was interested in temu, since the first time I ever heard about it, it was people warning me about them stealing your data and since then I haven’t heard much good things about it.
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