Youtube is not doing enough to stop the
illegal sharing of copyrighted video clips and should "reset the service",
according to a coalition of Japanese music, film and television companies.
"There is no middle ground," composer Hideki Matsutake told a Tokyo press
conference.
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"We demand that all copyrighted material be removed immediately."
Matsutake said that YouTube had to change the way it runs its site and get
rid of the illegal clips.
"We want them to reset the service," he said.
The coalition has held two meetings with YouTube and
Google staff this year and the video site
responded to its requests last
October by deleting 29,000 files from its service.
Google is currently developing a system to automatically detect when
copyrighted material has been posted on the site but Mizuo Sugawara of the
Japanese
Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers said it is taking
too long.
"What's important to us is what YouTube can do immediately and we have no
guarantee that the new technology will even work," said Sugawara.
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