Protect your videos

You've been able to report these videos if they violate your copyright. And now, you'll have an additional option to get credit when this happens, as a way to expand your audience. Starting today, we're accepting applications for a new version of our Rights Manager tool that's built especially for our valued creator community, helping you control where and how your original content appears.

Once you import the videos you want to protect, Rights Manager can automatically get to finding matches across Facebook and Instagram, notify you, and give you credit. You can still manually search for your videos too, but with Rights Manager at the helm you can spend less time scrolling and more time creating!

After you've submitted an application for Rights Manager, you'll hear back from us within a few days by email. All applications will be evaluated based on the individual’s need for Rights Manager capabilities and addressed on a case-by-case basis. Heads up: There are a few factors we take into account to approve a creator for Rights Manager. For instance, we want to make sure you create original content that you wholly own.

First, import the videos you created directly from your library. Rights Manager will take it from there, finding any videos containing at least 30 seconds of content that matches yours. You can also adjust the match settings to increase or decrease the amount of time someone else's video should overlap with yours to generate a match, or specify if your settings should apply worldwide or only to certain countries.

Once you've imported your videos and defined Match Settings, Rights Manager will kickoff identifying new video matches, surfacing them in the Matches section. When your content is picked up on someone else's page, you can choose to automatically attribute credit via the ownership links feature. (That means your Page name will appear below the video, generating exposure and driving traffic to your page, as seen in the image below.) If you choose to, you can also block or report the matched content.

We're excited to share the new version of Rights Manager with the creator community and accept applications today! Once your application is approved, go to your Page -> Publishing Tools -> Rights Manager to get started.