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Facebook has been criticized for having lax enforcement of third-party copyrights for videos uploaded to the service. In 2015, some Facebook pages were accused of plagiarizing videos from YouTube users and re-posting them as their own content using Facebook's video platform, and in some cases, achieving higher levels of engagement and views than the original YouTube posts.
YouTube has faced numerous challenges and criticisms in its attempts to deal with copyright, including the site's first viral video, Lazy Sunday, which had to be taken due to copyright concerns. [4] At the time of uploading a video, YouTube users are shown a message asking them not to violate copyright laws. [5]
In April 2016, Facebook released Rights Manager, a tool allowing rights holders to identify copyrighted content. [24] Rights Manager was expanded in April 2017 to automatically block content, monitor video metrics, and receive a portion of the video's revenue if it has advertisements attached to it. [25]
YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works". [4] During the same court battle, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site.
YouTube's own practice is to issue a "YouTube copyright strike" on the user accused of copyright infringement. [1] When a YouTube user gets hit with a copyright strike, they are required to watch a warning video about the rules of copyright and take trivia questions about the danger of copyright. [2] A copyright strike will expire after 90 days.
After live videos having skyrocketed on Facebook in the last months, the social network launches Facebook Creator, an app for mobile video posts offering influencers Live Creative Kit for adding intros and outros to broadcasts, a unified inbox of Facebook and Instagram comments plus Messenger chats, cross-posting to Twitter and expansive analytics.
In January 2018, a YouTube uploader who created a white noise generator received copyright notices about a video he uploaded which contained only white noise. [ 35 ] In September 2018, a German university professor uploaded videos with several classical music performances for which their copyright had expired, because both the composers were ...
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