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  • 2020-09-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Facebook Banning Livestreamed Music Events? (en)
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  • The language in Facebook’s music guidelines became the subject of some confusion in September 2020 when a terms of service update — effective Oct. 1, 2020, on the social media network — seemed to indicate that the social media network would ban livestreams and videos of musical performances on their platforms. Snopes readers shared a number of articles with us that claimed Facebook would limit the ability of bands to promote music on their platforms — including on Facebook Live — which has been popular for concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic. News organizations quoted this particular section from Facebook’s music guidelines: Since these guidelines were attached to Facebook’s terms of service update, many assumed that meant this rule would take effect on Oct. 1, 2020. But the vagueness of the term, music listening experience resulted in rumors that were far from the truth. We learned that the above guidelines were not new. They had been in place since at least 2018, based on the archived version of the same page. On Sept. 11, 2020, Facebook issued a clarification to a May 20, 2020, blog post titled Updates and Guidelines for Including Music in Video. They stated: We reached out to Facebook, and a spokesperson confirmed that their music guidelines had been in place since 2018. Social media users were mistaking the updates they made to their terms of service for new music guidelines — but there were no new updates to the music guidelines, including a supposed ban on livestreaming music. The spokesperson pointed us to the same blog post that highlighted what was, and was not, permitted: Based on the information in the blog post, Facebook is still permitting live musical performances — but with limitations. Those include shorter clips, and cutting back on full-length recordings. They noted that these guidelines are consistent across live and recorded video on both Facebook and Instagram, and for all types of accounts. A Facebook spokesperson pointed out what some of these limitations could be: Given that Facebook is not actually banning musical performances on its platforms, including through livestreams, but is continuing to implement old policies that have limitations based on copyright agreements, we rate this claim as Mostly False. (en)
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