Ask HN: A Facebook page is committing a copyfraud. How can you deal with that?
I uploaded a viral video (a recording of mobiks in Russia) on my personal facebook page some time ago.
Now a facebook page that reposts viral videos from the web (and has 70M followers) claimed ownership of my upload, in a clear copyright fraud. Facebook put a link to the "owner" under my upload.
Facebook proposes me to appeal to the fraudster only (which I did and it was rejected, of course). I didn't find a way to report a copyfraud.
How can you deal with that?
It isn't something that important to me, it's just a matter of principle.
If you actually care about this then you can go and write a polite but firm letter/mail to Facebook's legal department.
Contacting support/appealing is unlikely to do much since their metric is tickets closed, whereas the legal metric is "number of things prevented from blowing up"
That said, there's a chance legal won't care, but it's the best option I think.
I had similar issues with the Facebook. Once I was able to resolve it by writing a counter claim that they don't have to copyright, but in the second case it failed.
This is a systematic issue and will be not solved until there is no punishment for such fraudulent behavior.