"Google hopes technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyright-infringing videos on its YouTube site, a company lawyer told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits yesterday. The lawyer, Philip S. Beck, told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton in Manhattan that YouTube was working �very intensely and cooperating� with major content companies on video recognition technology as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the F.B.I. Mr. Beck said the company planned to have the technology in place in the fall, �hopefully in September.� Mr. Beck said the video recognition technology would allow owners of videos to provide a digital fingerprint so that if anyone tried to share a video that infringed copyrights, the system would remove it within a minute or so."
You had to figure Google would have to implement some sort of system just to protect their deep pockets from lots of lawsuits. If it accurately tags and removes only truly infringing materials, this could just work.
Google to Automate Removal of Copyrighted Materials
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