Google Copyright Filter Coming to YouTube this Fall

Published: July 30, 2007, 9:43 am

Tags: video, legal, google, copyright infringement, viacom, youtube

Sometime this Fall, Google will rollout a copyright filtering system for YouTube and try to catch infringements before they’re posted. At a court hearing related to Viacom’s (and many others) law suit against the video service, YouTube attorney Philip Beck revealed they’re working on a system that would only take a few minutes to determine if a clip is copyrighted material. Unfortunately, Beck was somewhat vague on when Google would have the screening in place. Clarification from Google doesn’t help either: “We hope to have the testing completed and technology available by sometime in the Fall,” said a Google spokesman in an e-mail. “But this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken, and as always with cutting-edge technologies, it’s difficult to forecast specific launch dates.” Meanwhile, the law suits will continue and may take years before there’s any definitive outcome. Any new

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