Guideline 5.2 — Intellectual Property
Your app uses a name, logo, artwork or data that belongs to someone else, and Apple has no evidence you are allowed to.
What the rejection usually says
Your app includes content that may violate the rights of a third party.
Your app name, icon or metadata includes third-party trademarks.
Wording varies between reviewers; the substance does not.
Why it gets triggered
- A brand name in your app name, subtitle or keywords.
- Logos, artwork or team names used without licence.
- Scraped content from a service you have no agreement with.
- An app that acts as an unofficial client for a service that has not authorised it.
How to fix it
1.Provide documentary permission
If you are authorised, attach the licence or a letter from the rights holder in Resolution Center. Claiming permission without evidence does not clear it.
2.Remove the marks
Take third-party brands out of the name, subtitle, icon, screenshots and keyword field. Nominative references in body text are safer than in identity.
3.Use licensed sources
Replace scraped data with an official API or a source whose terms permit your use.
A reply you can adapt
Short, specific, and stating what changed — reviewers read hundreds of these.
Thank you for the review. We have removed the third-party trademark from the app name, icon and screenshots. Where the brand is referenced in the description it is now purely descriptive, and we have attached our licence for the data source.
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