YouTube: Sorry, but you still have to find your copyrighted stuff on your own
Last week, YouTube said it would use a new system for identifying copyrighted video clips. This announcement was part of a revenue-sharing deal struck with Warner Music. The companies agreed last week that Warner would receive a cut of any ad revenue generated by its clips.
Given that YouTube receives about 65,000 new videos a day, the sheer number of videos posted means that such a system could only be employed selectively.
In a new "corrected version" of the announcement, YouTube promises only an "automated audio identification technology to help prevent works previously removed from the.
Ooops. The revision is important because it seems to imply that copyright owners will still have to locate offending content and flag it to YouTube each time they wish to have it removed.
Posted by admin on September 27th, 2006 :: Filed under Internet TV
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September 27th, 2006
I knew when a while back YouTube founders kept saying that they were going to keep on with their user-policing policy, that it wouldn’t last long.
While this is one step they had to take, to get more deals they’ll probably have to do some more to satisfy the media companies.