For rights holders
Your enforcement budget is fighting the wrong layer.
Takedowns police millions of listings that relist within hours, while the counterfeit ships anyway. But every counterfeit is a physical object, printed by a real company. The manufacturing layer is small, identifiable, and until now, unwatched. CheckMerch puts your catalog behind it.
Millions of listings. A room of printers.
Listings are infinite: anonymous storefronts, relisted in hours, spread across thousands of marketplaces. Enforcement there is a subscription that never ends. Manufacturing is finite: a small network of real companies with names, facilities, and reputations. One check at the print queue reaches what a thousand takedowns chase.
An infringing design stops being a product you remove. It becomes a product that never exists.
How it works.
- Register once.
- One batch upload. Or run our open-source fingerprinting tool inside your own infrastructure, and your originals never leave your systems. The registry holds irreversible fingerprints, never artwork.
- The network checks.
- Verified printers match every incoming production file against your works: robust to resizing, re-encoding, mirroring, recoloring, and single-ink versions. Every match on your work, licensed or not, lands in your dashboard.
- Your grants decide.
- Issue license grants scoped by work, use, territory, and term, revocable in real time. Authorized production clears. Everything else is a documented match with your licensing contact attached, so an infringement can become a sale.
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Three lines in your license template.
Add a verification clause to your standard license and every licensee (and every printer they use) becomes a checkpoint for your catalog. No integration project on your side; the requirement travels with the paper. We provide model language your counsel can adapt in minutes.
Licensee shall verify all production of Licensed Products through CheckMerch and shall ensure its manufacturing suppliers do the same. Verified products may display the licensed-product badge.
Legitimacy your customers can check.
Every verified licensed product can carry a public badge link resolving to the rights holder, the licensee, and live license status, checked against the grant ledger in real time, so a counterfeit can't mint one.
Your licensees get anti-counterfeit marketing; your customers get certainty; you get a visible mark distinguishing official product everywhere it sells.
Licensed product
- Work
- Haunted Ramen
- Rights holder
- Aster & Vane Studio
- Licensee
- Meridian Merch Co.
- License
- Directly by Aster & Vane Studio
- Valid
- Aug 2026 – Aug 2027
- Badge
- bdg_01k2dk9mvfr8
Status is live: revoking the license invalidates this badge immediately.
What you see.
- Every match, one dashboard
- Licensed and unlicensed production attempts on your works, as they happen.
- Block analytics
- Where your IP is being attempted, at what volume, by which channels.
- The grant ledger
- Every active license, scope, and expiry in one queryable place; revocation propagates to every verifier instantly.
Your catalog, behind every print queue.
Registration takes a day. The originals never have to leave your building.
Individual artists register free, and if you sell on a partner platform, your account may already exist, waiting to be claimed.