Suggestion for avoiding copyrighted duplicates

Curious about something... 

Deleting duplicate images that do not have copyrights is easy enough. Maybe there is something that can be done to avoid duplicates that do have copyrights from getting uploaded in the first place (since this are the ones that are hard to delete). If a content provider is uploading images that have a copyright in the metadata perhaps a prompt can come up or a box can be clicked when the copyright info auto populates. Something like “Have you confirmed that you are the first to upload this copyrighted image for this film or person? IMDB.com would like to avoid duplicates.” 

For example the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has copyrighted images from three sources:

Photo by Merrick Morton - © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

Photo by Merrick Morton

Photo by Fox Searchlight Pictures - © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

It’s possible that one person uploaded three versions of the same images with three different copyrights. Or three different sources, Mr. Morton, Fox Searchlight and Twentieth Century Fox all uploaded without looking to see what was already up.


Maybe this could help avoiding duplicates. Maybe the tech heads on your staff would be able to provide something like this as a fix. 


Just wondering.