The number one problem that content creators and creatives face on social media and around the internet space is copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, which happens in the form of other people posting, and reposting their content on their pages or blog without crediting the original creators of the content.
I do often see some social media skit makers and content creators complain bitterly about how big blogs and pages post and repost their contents without tagging them or giving them post credit as the creators of the work.
Creators in this instance sometimes do feel that they are helpless and there is nothing they can legally do about it but contrary to their blissful ignorance, someone is not permitted to post or repost your work on their pages or blogs without tagging you or crediting you, the original owner creator of the work; any blog or pages that does that have infringed on the copyright of the original creator of the work and if the blog or page passes off the content as if it’s theirs, then that has amounted to intellectual property or copyright theft which is actionable in law.
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A skit maker or a social media content creator owns the copyright to his content or skits and it is expected and as a matter of law that any other person who intends post or to repost that skit or that content must seek express permission from the creator of the work and if that content gets posted or reposted, the “reposter” must give credit by tagging or mentioning the original creator of the work if not it will be held that the reposter has infringed on the rights of the creator of the work and the owner creator can commence an action for copyright infringement or theft.
As an original owner or creator of content; be it video content, picture content, music or written (article) content, you own the copyright to that content and you are allowed to share or refuse to share that copyright you possess over your content and you have the legal right to ask whomsoever repost your content on their platforms without your express permission to pull it down and failure for them to do that will become actionable.
You only get to have the legal right to post or repost someone’s content when they have given you express permission or when you have acquired the either exclusive or non-exclusive right to the content; through that, you become a co-owner, joint owner or exclusive owner of the work.
The law deems it fit to protect content creators and creatives and the law classified whatever content they birth out as their intellectual properties and it enjoys special recognition and protection under the law known as intellectual property protection. Therefore, the least you can do for the owner of the content you are using to entertain your followers or bring traffic to your page is to tag, mention or give credit to the owner if not the owner can sue you for theft or infringement on his copyright.
In summary, posting someone’s content on Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, blog or whatever other platform without tagging or giving credit to the creator of the work, be it picture or video amounts to copyright infringement and in some cases when you pass it off as if you are the original owner of the work it becomes theft and the rightful owner can commence an action against you.