Facebook updates Rights Manager so content owners can earn ad income from pirated videos

Like Google, Facebook places great importance on advertising. The social network not only earns money from ads itself, but also allows companies and individuals to do so by displaying ads in videos. Pirates were quick to spot a quick way to earn money -- steal someone else's popular video and watch the ad revenue roll in. Now Facebook is fighting back in a way that has already been used to some extent by YouTube. There is a new "claim ad earnings" option in the Rights Manager tool which enables the owner of a particular video to bag the ad revenue… [Continue Reading]