Facebook Will Let People Claim Ownership of Images and Issue Takedown Requests (theverge.com) 26
Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up. The Verge reports: In an update to its rights management platform, the company is starting to work with certain partners today to give them the power to claim ownership over images and then moderate where those images show up across the Facebook platform, including on Instagram. The goal is to eventually open this feature up to everyone, as it already does with music and video rights. The company didn't give a timeline on when it hopes to open this up more broadly.
Facebook didn't disclose who its partners are, but this could theoretically mean that if a brand like National Geographic uploaded its photos to Facebook's Rights Manager, it could then monitor where they show up, like on other brands' Instagram pages. From there, the company could choose to let the images stay up, issue a takedown, which removes the infringing post entirely, or use a territorial block, meaning the post stays live but isn't viewable in territories where the company's copyright applies. To claim their copyright, the image rights holder uploads a CSV file to Facebook's Rights Manager that contains all the image's metadata. They'll also specify where the copyright applies and can leave certain territories out. Once the manager verifies that the metadata and image match, it'll then process that image and monitor where it shows up. If another person tries to claim ownership of the same image, the two parties can go back and forth a couple times to dispute the claim, and Facebook will eventually yield it to whoever filed first. If they then want to appeal that decision, they can use Facebook's IP reporting forms.
Facebook didn't disclose who its partners are, but this could theoretically mean that if a brand like National Geographic uploaded its photos to Facebook's Rights Manager, it could then monitor where they show up, like on other brands' Instagram pages. From there, the company could choose to let the images stay up, issue a takedown, which removes the infringing post entirely, or use a territorial block, meaning the post stays live but isn't viewable in territories where the company's copyright applies. To claim their copyright, the image rights holder uploads a CSV file to Facebook's Rights Manager that contains all the image's metadata. They'll also specify where the copyright applies and can leave certain territories out. Once the manager verifies that the metadata and image match, it'll then process that image and monitor where it shows up. If another person tries to claim ownership of the same image, the two parties can go back and forth a couple times to dispute the claim, and Facebook will eventually yield it to whoever filed first. If they then want to appeal that decision, they can use Facebook's IP reporting forms.
This will really help cosplayers (Score:2)
I have seen a number of posts from Cosplayers at times asking people to report accounts that are impersonating them... being able to register images with Facebook seems a really helpful tool.
I"m kind of surprised they didn't do something like this sooner, owning Instagram where image piracy to score views has to be rife.
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I have seen a number of posts from Cosplayers at times asking people to report accounts that are impersonating them.
Wait: isn't "cosplay" the fetish of dressing up like someone/something else? So a cosplayer bitching about someone impersonating them is like bitching about photocopies of counterfeit Willy Wonka Golden Tickets.
Difference of effort (Score:1)
So a cosplayer bitching about someone impersonating them
I can see what you are getting at, but the better cosplayers might put literally a hundred hours or more into re-creating a costume, never mind the time and effort it takes to actually put all of the components of the costume on (often a lot of makeup involved as well).
So there is a pretty large difference between re-creating something you saw on screen with great effort, and someone just casually grabbing an image and posting it up as if it was them
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Here, it's code for furries.
He's really rolling with furries.
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Wait: isn't "cosplay" the fetish of dressing up like someone/something else?
While many cosplayers make significant efforts to copy an existing character, many instead create unique characters.
I'm reminded of the clown library where circus clowns would paint their unique clown makeup face on an empty egg shell to "protect" it.
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No it's simple fraud. Why do you think they impersonate cosplayers? It's to get money (donations/ad revenue) or to smear them with fake posts.
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"being able to register images with Facebook seems a really helpful tool."
Wait until a couple of million morons want all photos removed where they are in.
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Wait until corporation xyz's AI takes down all your photographs that include their logo because you look a bit funny/young/old/fat/poor etc.
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The Future! (Score:2)
Oh boy (Score:1)
This is only for "Partners"? (Score:2)
Regular users can piss off?
I felt a great disturbance in the force (Score:4, Funny)
As if millions of memes cried out in terror and were silenced.
Ah the ol facebook (Score:2)
Killing the internet little by little since 2004.
Bringing real names to the table that bought nothing of value, erasing smaller communities, wasting a shitload of global computing power with that ever growing mass of interpreted code, making people have the impression it is some sort of private space when it's not, giving criminals a great form of tracking their victims..
The Russian Mafia is Happy About This (Score:1)
Bring in the bots and automated scripts (Score:2)
soon Facebook will be a cesspool even worse than Youtube.
Large corps (Score:2)
low value low hanging fruit as a distraction (Score:2)