Meta stops actioning DMCA takedowns for stolen content on Facebook, Instagram

[Dan Robinson]

For the past few months, Meta has stopped actioning DMCA takedowns sent for stolen content on their platforms. They're sending out this response to takedown requests:



I have a rights management agency handling my videos. They have sent 3 takedowns for a reupload of one of my videos on January 7 that had 7 million views. It now has 11 million views and is still up. I've sent 2 takedowns for it, and get the above response. This is one of many we are seeing this happen with. Takedowns for other videos (there are countless others) sent within the past 2 months have not been actioned.

If you are also having this problem, please let me know.

 

[Tony Laubach]

I recently submitted a copyright dispute to a guy who was using one of my Akron tornado photos for his "business page" back on February 12. He had put his logo and other text over my image and was using it to promote his page (particularly on the Chaser Summit posts on FB). I had some email back and forth with Facebook, and it was pretty quickly resolved. Judging by the two-word email the guy sent me this morning and the lack of any of his posts or page showing up, I would assume Facebook removed the picture, if not the entire page.

This was the last reply I got from Facebook via email on Feb 12...

"Thanks for contacting us. We removed the content you reported for violating Facebook's Terms of Service or Instagram's Terms of Use. We understand this action to resolve your intellectual property issue."

I'm not sure when the content/page may have ultimately been taken down. But as I mentioned, the page creator emailed me this morning a two-word message, so I would assume it happened somewhat recently?

Not sure this is specifically related to you issue, but I wanted to pass along that my dispute has gone through. Good luck!

 

[Dan Robinson]

Just an update to this. We still see no resolution to this issue. Stolen videos from early January are still up after 4 or 5 takedowns each were sent. They're just thumbing their noses at us at this point.

Again, if you are having this problem, please let me know. I can put you in touch with contacts that may be able to get you involved in the legal avenues against this.

 

[Andy Wehrle]

Judging by the two-word email the guy sent me this morning...