Shein-Temu copyright ruling stresses importance of 'hosting defense' specifics
By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( August 17, 2026, 15:37 GMT | Comment) -- In last week's judgment in UK litigation between Shein and Temu, a discussion of the “hosting defense” that platforms can build against copyright infringement claims has emphasized the extent to which defendants hoping to rely on the strategy must pay close attention to who knew what, and when.In Shein’s recent unsuccessful UK copyright action against rival fast-fashion platform Temu, the judge’s dissection of the latter's hosting defense has underlined how this rather rare approach to fighting an infringement claim is particularly reliant on how an online platform both handles vendors on its site and how good a picture can be painted of the pattern of behavior against those individual sellers....
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