YouTube puts a ban on copyrighted material...for real this time
YouTube has once again said they’re going to start cracking down on uploading copyrighted videos this time they’ve started giving dates. Last week CNET News reported:
"YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent pirated material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday.
Google, which acquired YouTube in October, plans to generate a library of digital video fingerprints that would be used by a computer system to screen clips being uploaded to YouTube, said Philip Beck, one of the attorneys representing Google and YouTube. Beck added that the screening process would take only a few minutes to determine whether a clip is copyright material.
Cinematech wrote a blog post about YouTubes statement on Saturday and brought up a pretty good point. What will happen to videos that contain a small amount of music of video that is considered "fair use?" It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
[via Cinematech]
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