Hi Hank. Below is a response I wrote to an article on the subject that expresses why I disagree that Facebook steals video content. I invite you and your users to try to find examples of videos post on Facebook, from third party concerns, that do not have a credit for the concern that originally post the video.

‘Hi Alex. You bring up a point that, not only makes sense, but is both obvious and transparent. I just went through my Facebook page to look for videos and it seems that when a video is from, Youtube, TED (talks), CNBC, etc., is posted, the original ‘author’ or original post is addressed in the heading.

Example: Embarrassingly, someone post ‘Shiny Happy People’ on my Facebook page, (long story), which was lifted from Youtube. It is important to note that when I pushed the play button I first got an ad that was obviously put in place by youtube. Therefore Youtube got everything out of it that they would have received had I gone to youtube, which I believe, essentially I had. They got credit on Facebook that it was content from Youtube and they got there advertisement hit.

In your article you make no mention that anyone has called Facebook on being content thieves. It seems like this is only your personal observation. I submit that Facebook, Google and others have probably resolved this issue behind closed doors.’