YouTube to Implement New Technology
People who try to post copyrighted videos on YouTube could confront a video recognition system as sophisticated as FBI fingerprint technology by this fall, according to a lawyer for the popular Web site.
YouTube, owned by Google Inc., is working “very intensely” on the technology and hopes to have it in place in September, lawyer Philip S. Beck told a federal judge in Manhattan who is presiding over copyright lawsuits.
The video recognition technology will allow those holding copyrights on videos to provide a digital fingerprint, so that if anyone tries to share a copyrighted video, the system will shut it down within a minute or so, Beck said in court Friday.
Beck said the company was counting on the software to “hopefully eliminate such disputes in the future.” He said the company believes the new technology goes way beyond what the law requires to stop copyright infringement.
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