Jul 31 2007
YouTube to screen for copyright
YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent copyright-infringing material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday.
According to the plan, Google intends on maintaining a library of digital video fingerprints that would be used by a computer system to screen clips being uploaded to YouTube.
To date, Google has been confident that if sued, it would be able to get away unharmed, but it appears as if the growing amount of suits concerning copyright infringement made Google make a move the right direction and attempt to fight the abuse of its YouTube platform - via insideonlinevideo
When Mark Cuban predicted this move in an interview earlier this month I copied the “Youtube is doomed” headline from Spectrum. Maybe not doomed - but breaking YouTube’s defacto lock on video search is a huge boost to YouTube’s competitors - video search engines, and alternate video hosting sites.
As I mentioned in June this is great news for professional content creators.
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It’ll be even better news when they finally institute a revenue-sharing system for everyone, not just the select few producers who YouTube decides to invite.