The company said new video matching technology would alert selected content creators if their videos were reposted to Facebook without permission.<\/p>\n
In August, YouTube star Hank Green wrote a blog criticising the company over its slow response to video piracy.<\/p>\n
Brady Haran, who runs a collection of YouTube channels, told the BBC he still had questions over Facebook’s new approach.<\/p>\n
Facebook has been trying to grow its video business and in July it announced plans to share advertising revenue with content creators for the first time.<\/p>\n
But the company has been criticised by prominent video creators such as Mr Green for failing to tackle video piracy.<\/p>\n
In June, research by advertising agency Ogilvy found that 73% of the most popular videos on Facebook had been ripped from other websites.<\/p>\n
Announcing its new approach, Facebook said: “Our matching tool will evaluate millions of video uploads quickly and accurately, and when matches are surfaced, publishers will be able to report them to us for removal.”<\/p>\n
The new tool will be available to a “small group of partners” while the company improves the technology.<\/p>\n
As well as detecting freebooted videos, the BBC understands the tool will be able to detect when small portions of stolen content are used in another video without permission.<\/p>\n
However, unlike YouTube’s content ID system which can block infringing videos automatically, Facebook’s system will notify copyright holders and ask them if they want to remove the freebooted video.<\/p>\n
‘Frustrating’<\/strong><\/p>\n “It’s a daily frustration to see wealthy companies exploit your work without permission,” said Brady Haran, whose educational YouTube channels are followed by around two million people.<\/p>\n Mr Haran is credited with coining the term freebooting in the Hello Internet podcast he co-hosts.<\/p>\n He told the BBC: “The first few hours of a video upload is the golden window when it gets the most views. Any solution requiring notifications and human intervention risks ‘closing the gate after horse has bolted’.<\/p>\n “Facebook must be aware of this and I’m curious about whether they plan to address it.”<\/p>\n Facebook said it planned to develop a “comprehensive video management system” and was “committed” to tackling video piracy.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The company said new video matching technology would alert selected content creators if their videos were reposted to Facebook without permission. In August, YouTube star Hank Green wrote a blog criticising the company over its slow response to video piracy. Brady Haran, who runs a collection of YouTube channels, told the BBC he still had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":140719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-147680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}