Youtube promises copyright filters by September
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31 Jul 2007, Shaun Nichols , V3
An attorney for video-sharing site Youtube told a US district court that the company is near the final stages of deploying a system to filter out copyrighted content.
According to the Associated Press, Youtube attorney Philip S. Beck told a New York court that the system would be in place "hopefully in September".
The system would reportedly use digital fingerprinting technology to compare user-submitted videos to copyrighted materials and filter out violations.
Youtube reportedly has been working on a filtering system since before last autumn's acquisition by Google. Last February, speculation flared up again after Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said that a system would be put in place "very soon".
Those rumours picked up even more steam when it was reported that the company was working with DRM firm Audible Magic to develop a system to digitally "fingerprint" user-generated content.
Youtube's current policy states that the company will only take down infringing videos at the request of the copyright owner.
The company's policies have landed both Youtube and Google in hot water with content providers.
Since last year, Youtube has received hundreds of thousands of takedown requests from content providers and royalty groups. The largest of those is the 100,000 video takedown request from Viacom that later evolved into a $1bn lawsuit.
The Viacom suit was later combined with similar copyright suits from the FA Premier League and music label Bourne.
Do you agree?
Well....
This mean half of youtube's videos will go "kaput." Now no one will want to go to Youtube anymore.
Posted by Steven, 02 Aug 2007
NO!!!!!
You tube is great to go watch fan made vids and listen to music this is bad why is this happening.
A lot of youtube members have set up patitions against this and posted them as bullitins
Posted by caz, 09 Aug 2007
No!
I agree and think I speak for everyone when I say that will permanently ruin it make people NOT want to go there any more.
Posted by Francisco, 13 Feb 2008
This will ruin youtube and everyone with company connections with it...
Anyone who is logical will realize that if youtube is takeing legal action against this copywrite material they will not only destroy themselves but all companies connected with them in funding and sponserships, this is very inconsiderate to public included in youtube sponserships and very rash.
They are totally officially screwed...
Posted by Sammie, 07 May 2008
Hell No!!
True , people. This will only ruin Youtube. People will not go there if U cannot listen to music, watch movies etc. Tell me somethin that is not cpyrighted?? Every music track is. Every film clip is. Well they are only ruining themselves.
Posted by Marius, 05 Apr 2008
Sorry folks, but...
... this is the way it should be happening. Ever heard of intellectual property? If you write a song, a book, or a movie, you have the right to sell it as you see fit. It belongs to you! If other people can just come along and copy it and use it any way they want, including making it free so that no one will buy it from you anymore, then how is that justifiable? If you knew you could make money from something you worked hard to create, why would you want other people to come along and take it for nothing? You wouldn't be okay with it if someone "borrowed" your car from your driveway for awhile. You wouldn't let someone take your cellphone to make a few calls. Those are your things, things you paid for that belong to you. Same goes for your music/movie/book/whatever. Youtube has to follow the same laws as the rest of us. Period.
Posted by Terry, 15 Jun 2008