Rights and compliance
A customer posted a great photo of your product. Legal says you cannot use it yet. These guides cover the permission, the proof and the rules.
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- 2 lawsRights and complianceFTCidukki · blog
Fake reviews law in 2026: the FTC rule and the UK ban, for Shopify stores
The FTC rule and the UK ban in plain words. What each bans, what stays allowed, and a checklist for your review app.
Rohin Aggarwal · October 12, 2026
- Rights and complianceInstagramidukki · blog
How to legally collect UGC from Instagram and TikTok
A repost is not permission. To put a customer's photo or video on your store or in an ad you need a documented licence, with a recorded reply that grants it.
Rohin Aggarwal · May 13, 2026
- Rights and complianceRe-usingidukki · blog
Re-using user-generated content with permission: the complete rights guide
The customer who shot a photo owns its copyright. Neither you nor the platform does. What a usage licence must cover before you re-use user-generated…
Rohin Aggarwal · May 5, 2026
- Rights and complianceLicensingidukki · blog
Music licensing in UGC video, the hidden legal risk
A UGC video can be cleared on every frame and still expose you. The music under it carries separate rights.
Rohin Aggarwal · January 19, 2026
- Rights and complianceGDPRidukki · blog
GDPR, consent and UGC
UGC shows identifiable people, so it is personal data under GDPR. A defensible programme records scoped permission, honours removal requests, and minimises…
Rohin Aggarwal · January 18, 2026
- Rights and complianceRightsidukki · blog
Influencer whitelisting and paid-usage rights
Whitelisting means running paid ads through a creator's own handle. It performs hard, and a vague deal turns it into a rights minefield.
Rohin Aggarwal · January 17, 2026
- Rights and complianceCCPAidukki · blog
CCPA and Customer Reviews: US Brand Compliance Guide
Reviews are personal information under CCPA. Disclose collection, honour deletion in 45 days and offer a one-step opt-out. Intentional violations cost up to…
Rohin Aggarwal · December 8, 2025
- Rights and complianceCopyrightidukki · blog
Copyright and Fair Use in UGC Repurposing: Practical Framework
Customers keep the copyright in their posts, and fair-use exceptions are narrower than most brands assume. Covers music, right of publicity and DMCA takedowns.
Rohin Aggarwal · December 7, 2025
- Rights and complianceFTCidukki · blog
FTC Endorsement Guidelines for Influencer and UGC Content
The 2023 updates expanded brand liability. Disclosure rules, labelling reposted UGC, the material-connection definition, and the enforcement actions to learn…
Rohin Aggarwal · December 10, 2025
- Rights and complianceGDPRidukki · blog
GDPR + UGC Compliance: The Operational Manual for 2026
GDPR treats reused customer content as personal-data processing. You need consent per asset, a searchable audit trail and a 30-day withdrawal SLA.
Rohin Aggarwal · December 9, 2025
- Rights and complianceConsentidukki · blog
How to Get Rights to Repost Customer UGC (with Templates that Average 38% Yes-Rate)
DM, comment and email templates, the 24-hour ask window, one-tap consent links and audit trails.
Rohin Aggarwal · April 24, 2026
- Rights and complianceRightsidukki · blog
What Is UGC Rights Management? Legal Framework
UGC rights management is obtaining explicit, documented permission before reposting customer content. Manual workflows collapse past about 50 pieces a month.
Rohin Aggarwal · October 5, 2025
- Rights and complianceEUidukki · blog
The EU AI Act and synthetic product video: who has to label AI-generated content, and when
Ship AI-generated or AI-manipulated product video into the EU and the AI Act's transparency rules can require a machine-readable disclosure label.
Rohin Aggarwal · April 21, 2026
- Rights and complianceInstagramidukki · blog
How to Repost Customer Content on Instagram (Legally)
Reposting a customer's photo without permission is copyright infringement, tag or no tag. The clean permission flow, what counts as consent, and how to do it…
Rohin Aggarwal · July 6, 2026
- 2 messagesRights and complianceInstagramidukki · blog
Instagram UGC rights requests: two messages, a consent page and the proof to keep
Copy-ready templates for a public comment, a DM and a consent page. Plus what to store as proof and what to do when the answer is no.
Rohin Aggarwal · July 10, 2026
- 30–40% higher engagementRights and complianceAPIidukki · blog
Instagram's Partnership Ads API: what it means for UGC rights management
Instagram's Partnership Ads API lets brands run paid media directly from creator handles with 30–40% higher reported engagement. The rights question nobody…
Rohin Aggarwal · July 30, 2026
- Rights and complianceSequenceidukki · blog
How to build a rights-request email sequence people actually reply to
Most rights requests are a single generic email that gets ignored. A three-touch sequence with fast timing, specific subject lines and the right offer turns…
Rohin Aggarwal · August 24, 2026
- Rights and complianceCaptionsidukki · blog
Alt text and captions on UGC are an accessibility issue, not just a legal checkbox
UGC galleries are often the least accessible part of a storefront. The WCAG 2.2 success criteria that apply to customer photos and video, what the European…
Rohin Aggarwal · August 17, 2026
- Rights and complianceSeparateidukki · blog
How to license one piece of creator content across TikTok, Reels and Shorts without three separate negotiations
The same clip usually needs separate usage terms per platform. Name platforms, duration, paid-vs-organic scope and geography once and you never renegotiate…
Rohin Aggarwal · July 30, 2026
- Rights and complianceAuditingidukki · blog
Auditing creator content rights before they quietly expire
A usage-rights grant almost never lasts forever, even when nobody wrote a date down. Past a few dozen live agreements, tracking that in memory or a shared…
Rohin Aggarwal · July 26, 2026
- Rights and complianceSKUidukki · blog
Which customer posts can you use in holiday ads? A rights and SKU matrix
We make Idukki for on-site shoppable UGC. So use this SKU and rights matrix before you boost customer posts in holiday ads.
Rohin Aggarwal · November 8, 2026
- Rights and compliancePDPidukki · blog
TikTok holiday hauls on your PDP: a December rights workflow that scales
Creators post faster than legal can reply. Use a December-ready rights step so haul clips land on PDPs with SKU tags.
Rohin Aggarwal · November 10, 2026
- Rights and complianceFTCidukki · blog
2027 compliance checklist: FTC, UK fake reviews rules, and UGC rights
A practical pre-publish checklist for US and UK storefronts using customer reviews and shoppable UGC. Disclosures, incentives, and rights logs.
Rohin Aggarwal · November 3, 2026
- Rights and complianceStrategyidukki · blog
No UGC strategy without a rights log
Feeds, widgets, and paid whitelisting all depend on one shared permissions ledger. Here is the minimum viable log for 2027.
Rohin Aggarwal · November 7, 2026
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