How to find out if someone uses your photos without permission on Facebook and Instagram

The two social networks introduce a system for verifying the protection of the intellectual property of photographs and images. The instant removal test for copyright violators is underway

Facebook Right Manager, the tool to manage copyright on your images (image: Facebook) Facebook has decided to allow its users to have greater control over property images. “We want to ensure that Facebook is a safe and valuable place for creators to share their content,” writes Dave Axelgard, Facebook's Product Manager, Creator and Publisher Experience on the blogpost on the rights management platform update.

Menlo Park has therefore begun to work to allow content creators to be able to claim intellectual property on images and thus be able to have control over the use of content.

The goal of this change is to bring a function that allows you to exercise copyright on an image exactly as it already happens for videos and music tracks.

“We have created tools such as Rights Manager in Creator Studio to help creators and publishers who have a large or growing content catalog to better control when, how and where their content is shared on Facebook and Instagram ", explains Axelgard.

How it works Rights Manager?

To use Rights Manager, you must first be an administrator of a page. Only they can submit an application to protect the content they have created or uploaded. Once the content to protect is selected, Rights Manager will start a search for matching images on Facebook and Instagram. It will then be up to the owner of the image to decide whether to launch a copyright strike to anyone who has posted his image without permission, having it removed from the social network.

Axelgard explained to The Verge that the company is starting to test the functioning of the system with a small group to "learn more and understand the correct way to address specific use cases like memes".

With this system, finally, many artists who see their works shared without the due credits, will be able to have the posts removed quickly and without too many thoughts. The update could have a strong impact on Instagram, where photographs and drawings are reloaded by other profiles that do not tag the creator, taking credit for the image and, in some cases, earning thanks to the likes received.