Google Cleaning Up YouTube Mess

Published: July 30, 2007, 2:42 pm

Tags: news, copyright infringement, google, viacom, youtbue

Google is planning on fixing their on-going issues with Viacom once and for all by finally having the content-fingerprinting technology they've been working on, up and running on YouTube by September. This will supposedly resolve the issues regarding the Viacom copyright infringement case that has been dragging on for eons now. Attorney for Viacom Donald Verrilli said that the company is pleased with the initiative, but does not believe that the new technology is all Google will need to do. We'd have been a lot happier if they'd put this in place when they launched, said Verrilli. He continued that the video-sharing site had a responsibility to track copyrighted material from the beginning as it is not only illegal, but the site gains profit from said material. They have built a business on this infringement, he said. Google attorney, Philip Beck has been sticking to Google's main argument that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's fair harbor provisions

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