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 Posted: Sat, 28th Jul 2007 21:08 Post subject: YouTube to Implement New Technology Against Copyright Infrin |
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Dunno where to put this, move it as you see fit.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291253,00.html
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NEW YORK — People who try to post copyrighted videos on YouTube could confront a video recognition system as sophisticated as FBI fingerprint technology by this fall, according to a lawyer for the popular Web site.
YouTube, owned by Google Inc., is working "very intensely" on the technology and hopes to have it in place in September, lawyer Philip S. Beck told a federal judge in Manhattan who is presiding over copyright lawsuits.
Viacom International Inc. and England's top soccer league and an indie music publisher — The Football Association Premier League Ltd. and publisher Bourne Co. — have sued YouTube. The lawsuits have been combined for trial purposes.
The video recognition technology will allow those holding copyrights on videos to provide a digital fingerprint, so that if anyone tries to share a copyrighted video, the system will shut it down within a minute or so, Beck said in court Friday.
Beck said the company was counting on the software to "hopefully eliminate such disputes in the future." He said the company believes the new technology goes way beyond what the law requires to stop copyright infringement.
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jul 2007 01:06 Post subject: |
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Several points in dispute to this:
1. How would the system be able to tell full features of copyrighted films posted in parts, in other words movies posted by tv-links types on youtube, from fair-use protected segments highlighting some moment in the movie or providing commentary. Sounds dubious.
2. Even if YouTube successfully deploys this, there will _always_ be other sites, even if they are of the overnight-shop variety, providing the content.
3. Removing copyright videos, also known as bending over for publishers with legal teams, has been an industry-wide trend for a while now. Will this *cough* "FBI" technology spread to google videos, stage6, veoh, and all the other popular movie-streaming sites?
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Jul 2007 01:12 Post subject: |
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All valid points but youtube is just following the CYA principle. They fear getting slammed with an mpaa lawsuit. They just want to show that their doing 'their best' to protect the rights of the owners.
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