Shopify Bans Merchant for a Year for His Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices

Shopify entered into an agreement with defendant Zachary Lotz that blocks him from offering products, goods or services through the Shopify platform for a year, said their stipulation Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01254) in U.S. District Court for Western New York in Buffalo. Lotz also is barred from submitting any notices of alleged copyright infringement containing “misrepresentations” that he owns or controls copyrights that he doesn’t own or control, it said. Shopify sued Lotz Dec. 4 to halt his bogus Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices against Shopify merchants through his knowingly false allegations of copyright infrngement (see 2312050006).