What’s scary is the immense gap in capabilities permitted to copyright holders in identifying violations because of the closed nature of the platform. Instagra

What’s scary is the immense gap in capabilities permitted to copyright holders in identifying violations because of the closed nature of the platform. Instagram, like Facebook, Apple , Google or any other tech company has the capability to detect “similar” images. Indeed, they use this information in addition to information about inferred concepts of the image to rank and suggest similar images to users when they scroll through the search page or discover. This act of “suggesting” content that has been known to have had copyright flags against it makes them complicit in my opinion. That they have only one, highly guarded way to search for related content is an insult (try finding this method I’m speaking about without me providing any other keywords other than to say it’s a partner only integration where signatures of content can be uploaded for protection)