Facebook Developing Copyright ID System to Stem Music Rights Infringement | Billboard (Dec 31, 2016)

It’s been clear for some time that Facebook is setting itself up as a competitor to YouTube, and of course a big investment in video requires an investment in copyright policing too. Unlike YouTube, of course, much of the content shared on Facebook is private, which means it’s almost impossible to properly gauge the scale of infringing material. Instagram already does some of this for recorded music, but this article implies a lot of the infringing videos on Facebook are covers rather than the originals, which is quite a bit harder to detect.

via Facebook Developing Copyright ID System to Stem Music Rights Infringement | Billboard


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