COPYRIGHT: FACEBOOK ANNOUNCES MASSIVE TAKE-DOWN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGING POSTS


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For intellectual property disputes, Facebook offers monitoring tools that alert rights holders to suspected copies of their videos and songs on Facebook and use of their brand. Rights holders can send takedown requests for unauthorized uses to a team of Facebook content analysts.

This process has proved to be cumbersome for right holders, Entertainment and media industry groups who have expressed frustration with the process, contending that they bear too much of the internet policing burden and that online services should be more proactive about stemming infringement.


As part of its biannual Transparency Report, on Monday, Facebook Inc made announcements which included the following;


·       That it removed nearly 3 million posts, including videos, ads and other forms of content, from its services during the first half of 2017 following complaints of counterfeiting and copyright and trademark infringement.

·       Facebook received about 377,400 complaints from January through June, with many referencing multiple posts. About 60 percent of the reports related to suspected copyright violations on Facebook.

·       The company removed user uploads in response to 81 percent of filings for counterfeiting, 68 percent for copyrights and 47 percent for trademarks, according to its report. The percentages were roughly similar to Instagram.


News Source: One America News Source

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