Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press.
Facebook helps users manage their intellectual property.
On Monday, Facebook posted a statement on its virtual newsroom announcing that users will be able to make use of tools to help them claim intellectual property.
In your text: Helping creators and publishers manage their intellectual propertythe social network led by Mark Zuckerberg announces to users that the platform that serves as a means of communication to creators and editors of different companies that has created tools to more easily identify the content they have created for their publications.
Facebook will make available to creators an additional tool in the Creator Studio called Rights Manager.
What the digital content distribution platform is looking for is that users can easily identify images they have uploaded to Facebook and compare them to find matches so they can protect themselves against malicious or unauthorized use, such as monetization of private content.
The statement issued Monday morning said that, to gain access to the new Rights Manager, it is necessary to send a request to identify the content they want to protect under the international laws of each country in relation to intellectual property and copyright.
It is important for Facebook, as a social network, to take more robust security measures as the 2020 US elections are about to take place.
So companies like Twitter and Google have already established protocols to help citizens vote by taking care of the content and security of official accounts of candidates and representatives of the Executive Branch and the U.S. Congress.