Facebook Launches Video Rights Manager

This week Facebook launched Rights Manager, a feature designed to combat stolen videos, or 'freebooting', on the popular social media platform. Rights Manager is essentially the same concept as YouTube's Content ID system, and will monitor publisher-designated clips to prevent reposts by unassociated parties. According to TechCrunch, "Rights Manager offers a ton of flexibility for content owners. They can choose different actions based on how much of a video was copied, what Page posted it or how many views it has gotten, and sort alerts about freebooting by these parameters, too." Rights Manager isn't openly available for use yet, but content owners can apply for access here.