If your copyrighted work has been posted on Facebook without your permission, Meta runs a dedicated copyright report form and acts on valid notices. The process is straightforward.
Use Facebook’s copyright form
Everything goes through Meta’s Facebook copyright report form.
Open it and follow the prompts. You will say whether you are the copyright owner or an authorized agent, describe your original work, paste the exact links to the infringing material (the specific posts, videos, or Pages, not a profile), and sign the two standard statements: a good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized, and that your information is accurate and you are authorized to act. If you want help wording the description and the ownership statement, our DMCA notice generator produces that language for you to adapt into the form.
Be precise with the links. Point to the exact post or video so Meta can find and remove what you mean, and keep one underlying work per submission rather than mixing several claims into one report.
After you submit, Meta sends a confirmation and acts on valid notices, usually within a few days.
If it is not removed, escalate to Apple
If Meta leaves the content up or rejects the claim, follow up on your report first. If that goes nowhere, you can escalate to the company that distributes the Facebook app. Apple runs a process for intellectual property disputes involving apps in the App Store, and a complaint that the app is hosting content that infringes your copyright applies pressure Meta cannot ignore. File it through Apple’s App Store intellectual property dispute form. (On Android, the equivalent is Google’s legal removal form, selecting Google Play and then Copyright.)
Instagram is part of the same company and uses the same kind of process, so if your work is also there, our Instagram copyright guide covers it. For other platforms, see the guides to X and TikTok, and the explainer on what the DMCA is covers why these notices work.