Facebook’s new image copyright tools will stop people from stealing photos or using other people’s photos without permission. The catch? This won’t stop anyone from stealing your Instagram photos unless you’re famous enough.
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An update has added image rights to Facebook’s rights management tool, along with music and video rights. For starters, image rights tools will only be available to certain individuals and organizations. This means you won’t be able to post other people’s images without permission (good), but you won’t be able to prevent people from stealing your own work (bad). And yes, this all applies to Instagram, too.
"For regular users, the most likely benefit will be that images that could have become much more serious legal problems will be removed immediately," Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today told Lifewire via email. "It may not seem like a big deal, but given the flood of Instagram-related lawsuits, it could help a lot of people."
Let’s say you upload a video to Facebook. The Rights Manager will analyze it and if it has music, it can mute that music in the video. A warning will appear and you can choose to post the muted video, or claim that the music is yours, or that you have permission to use it.
