Posted by gp on 31 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News and Events
YouTube will add software to automatically detect copyrighted videos this fall, possibly September, according to a lawyer defending the video sharing site and parent Google against Viacom’s claims of copyright theft. Viacom filed suit last March seeking $1 billion in damages and an injunction; that has been combined with another brought by England’s Football Association and music publisher Bourne. The hearing began in Manhattan on Friday, with the plaintiffs looking for an injunction against YouTube and damages.
Echoing promises from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AP reports that Google lawyer Philip S. Beck told Judge Louis L. Stanton the site was working “very intensely and cooperating” with major content companies on sophisticated video indexing that will “hopefully eliminate such disputes in the future.” The software would allow copyright holders to add a digital fingerprint to material—if YouTube finds the fingerprint upon upload, the video would be removed “within a minute or two.”
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