Protecting content in the sports industry depends on agile technology and dedicated partnership, and with Meta we have received both. Rights Manager gives us the ability to detect and remove piracy in real-time, which is crucial given the value of live content to our industry. We have seen the time required to detect content come down, the search functions become smoother and more intuitive, and the speed of elimination increase. Combining Meta tools with our proprietary technology has helped us to establish 24/7 content monitoring on a global scale, achieving high piracy elimination ratios (+95%), acting at its source, and stopping its spread.

Rights Manager is an excellent tool that allows me to control how Facebook and Instagram display my content. As an artist/educator with a good amount of copyrighted visual content, it’s important for me to have my work shared appropriately and attributed correctly. Rights Manager allows me to control (allow or block) copies of my work appearing on other profiles and pages across the Meta platforms from a very easy-to-use interface. Because of Rights Manager, I feel very confident sharing my visual work on the Meta sites.

I am so happy that Meta has launched Rights Manager. As a professional surf photographer, I couldn’t believe how and where my images were circulating Facebook and Instagram! It’s incredible how fast images can be shared across the globe, and it’s also been a valuable tool for learning which of my photographs people connect with the most.

International sports events do inspire and excite people all around the world. Especially while a match or competition is live, attention is particularly high, and content is shared widely across Social Media. The efficient protection of our partners’ rights is of significant importance.

With Rights Manager, Meta provides a highly effective and scalable platform tool to identify and act upon the unauthorized distribution of copyright-protected content. Working with Meta over the past years, we really appreciate the open exchange and continuous support we have received. Whether it’s improvement to Rights Manager based on feedback we were able to provide directly to the Meta teams, or if it’s support for 3rd party solutions through API access – Meta continues to create and make available additional processes, aiming to add yet another layer of protection to the valuable content of our partners.

UEFA takes piracy, the protection of its broadcaster partners’ interests and the unauthorised use of its footage extremely seriously. UEFA and Meta have, for some time, been working closely together, building a true partnership with a view to ensuring an efficient and effective copyright protection for all UEFA competitions.

Meta implements special coverage programmes and provides UEFA with tools and services, such as Rights Manager, in order to maximize efficiency and the prompt removal of unauthorized UEFA content on Meta’s platforms.