Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Merchants must not accept American Express Cards for internet sales of products that violate copyright or trademark laws
Under the heading Notification to American Express Regarding Sales Over the Internet of Illegitimate Products, the text states that merchants must not accept American Express Cards for sales of products over the Internet that would constitute a violation of copyright or trademark laws applicable to the merchant or Cardmember. It calls such copyright-infringing or counterfeit trademark products “Illegitimate Products”. This sentence is addressed to merchants, not to people visiting the Sites as consumers.
Details
- Who
- merchants
- What it does
- must not accept American Express Cards for sales of Illegitimate Products over the Internet
- What it covers
- products that would violate copyright or trademark laws applicable to the merchant or Cardmember
Supporting quotations
NOTIFICATION TO AMERICAN EXPRESS REGARDING SALES OVER THE INTERNET OF ILLEGITIMATE PRODUCTS
Merchants must not accept American Express Cards for sales of products over the Internet that would constitute a violation of copyright or trademark laws applicable to the merchant or Cardmember
Qualifications & exceptions
- Audience: merchants. The term “Cardmember” is used here without a definition in this document.
Not stated here
- The merchant agreement or card-acceptance rules that would apply this sentence are not supplied here.