While uploading a video on Instagram (Reel, Carousel video or Story), you can detect if that video is copyrighted or not. This capability helps you abstain from copyright infringement or plagiarism.

Steps to Check Copyright Issues While Publishing Videos

1. Click the Publisher icon in the top right corner of the top navigation bar and select Create Post.​

2. In the Create Post window, search and select the required Instagram Business account(s) in the Select Accounts field. You can also use Advanced Search to narrow your searches by a series of different filters.

3. Select the Type of Message from the drop-down menu as Post. The following other options are also available - Story, Post, Carousel and Reel.

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4. Under Media, select/upload the video you want to publish.

5. After the video has been uploaded, the preview pane will show a message with result of the copyright test.

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   Note: The message will appear almost instantly after you upload the video. If the video file is a little large, it may take some time before the message appears.

   However, you can still go ahead and save the video as draft or publish it. In case you publish the video or save it as draft before the message appears, you will receive a notification confirming if the video is copyrighted or not.

   

   You can also verify the copyright status later from the Third pane of the outbound post.

   

6. You will get warning if you get any copyright violation from Instagram for the uploaded video.

   

7. Carry on with the rest of the publishing process, based on the Type of Message(Story, Carousel, Reel).

Stop publishing if the video is copyrighted

You can set up a pre-publishing rule to stop all the posts, where copyright violation is detected on channel. Please use the rule condition - Is Copyright Violated and select Yes as the value. Then add Stop action on the "Condition True" branch of the rule.

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