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YouTube Video Identification will help copyright holders identify their works on YouTube. We have worked with Google to develop one-of-a-kind technology that can recognize videos based on a variety of factors. As its Beta status indicates, our Video Ident
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But Google’s moves in Japan have not soothed local concerns on copyright abuse, which mirror those elsewhere. Instead, some are already criticizing the video fingerprinting technology Google this week said would be online by September: AFP” title="AF
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We are beginning tests on an automated system to identify and match specific videos. The technology extracts key visual aspects of uploaded videos and compares that information against reference material provided by copyright holders. Achieving the accura
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# If YouTube visitors were looking specifically for Viacom copyrighted material, YouTube should have lost this traffic once it was pulled (which it clearly didn’t). # The overlap between YouTube and Viacom property visitors experienced a slight lift in
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In summary, we found that of the 6,725 most popular videos on YouTube, only 621 had been removed due to copyright requests. Views to the removed videos made up less than 6% of all recorded YouTube views.
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What if, instead, Viacom told YouTube that they could host clips from their shows, but reserved the hi-rez versions for themselves, and maybe they could have negotiated a link from the YouTube low-rez scan to the one served on their site. Anything would b
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YouTube's "proposition that they will only protect copyrighted content if there's a business deal in place is unacceptable," a spokesman for Viacom Inc., owner of MTV Networks and Comedy Central, said this week. One media industry source likened Yo
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"YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants to," Mr Zucker told the Financial Times, referring to the site’s controls to block pornography and hate speech.
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Following the recent news that Fox subpoenaed YouTube to identify a user uploading copyrighted content, I thought it'd be useful to collate info about litigation against the major video-sharing sites. Below, details on lawsuits and subpoenas against Veoh,
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But, they also bought a way to capitalize on the very real video sharing, social networking, community of interest trend that is truly just beginning. Can YouTube survive and prosper without bootleg content? It is certainly going to be a struggle. If the
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YouTube ... has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom – everything from snippets of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants.
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It was not the first time. NBC Universal has three employees who troll the site every day looking for studio-owned material, and they send more than 1,000 such requests a month to YouTube.
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There are widespread reports today (although annoyingly, few sources) that YouTube has been blocked in Brazil following the court order earlier this week. Model Daniela Cicarelli, you’ll remember, demanded over $100,000 in damages for every day her sex
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The copyright protection system that YouTube promised to develop in response to media company deals may be delayed. The Financial Times says YouTube promised in September that the technology would be available by the new year. YouTube denied the promise
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A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research), to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said on Thursd
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They wanted YouTube to automatically screen all uploads to see whether they contain copyrighted content (something YouTube is already working on), post a Japanese language warning about respecting copyright and delete any users who had posted copyrighted
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The site now performs frequent purges of television shows and other proprietary content uploaded by users. But those forbidden files can still be had. They've largely migrated to DailyMotion.com, another video-uploading site that replicates YouTube's mode
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YouTube's actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.
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Welcome to the terror of the Terms of Service world: Whether or not it is a violation of copyright law (which it isn’t, though the lawyers for YouTube seem to assert to the contrary), the view of many is that “fair use” rights can be promised away j
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So interested, in fact, that he dedicated a Nov. 14 posting on his blog to a motion for summary judgment filed by Tur's lawyers. "To say the stakes are huge would be an understatement," wrote Cuban, who subsequently highlighted an argument made by Tur's l
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Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube’s Terms of Use, of “tortious inter
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12.5 percent of the equity issued and issuable is subject to escrow for one year to secure certain indemnification obligations. Based on the $1.5 billion amount, that should be about $187.5 million.
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This is the YouTube curse: If a clip gets a lot of viewers, it immediately falls under scrutiny -- and if it's copyrighted material, as is often the case, the clip may well be removed, leaving useless links and frustrated viewers in its wake.
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Die Gema fordert von Google Lizenzgebühren für die Videotauschbörse Youtube. Die Gema mahnt zudem Urheberrechtsverstöße bei Youtube ab. Google wurde aufgefordert, Videos mit nicht lizensierter Musik zu löschen.
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Hat sich Google mit YouTube ver-kauft? Schon jetzt ist klar, dass es dort nicht weitergehen kann wie bisher. Der Erfolg der Videoseite fordert Opfer. Regeln für die Veröffentlichung werden nötig - doch so etwas hat schon anderen den Spaß und das Gesch
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Der Verband habe die Firma NetResult damit beauftragt, Urheberrechtsverstöße aufzuspüren, die Verantwortlichen abzumahnen und Unterlassung zu fordern
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Google is frantically making payouts of “tens of millions of dollars” to the content companies. One unnamed film and TV company is receiving $100 million to license its content over a two-year period, according to the report.
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What’s interesting here is that Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is complaining about footage taken by the fans themselves, not professionally created videos. He claims that access to these clips on YouTube is harming the team’s own video site,
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Google is “engaged in a frantic round of negotiations” with traditional media companies, even offering tens of millions of dollars in upfront payments to ward off any potential copyright lawsuits. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has met with top execs from CB
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Comedy Central was not asking YouTube to pull all the clips from its show, only full episodes — a reasonable and wise position.
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Armed with this kitty of money Youtube approached the media companies with an open checkbook to buy peace. The media companies smelled a transaction when Youtube radically changed their initial 'revenue sharing' offer to one laden with cash.
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Deshalb werde die DFL "rigoros" gegen illegale Angebote vorgehen, sagte Bender. "Wir haben die Firma NetResult damit beauftragt, Urheberrechtsverstöße im Internet aufzuspüren, die Verantwortlichen abzumahnen und Unterlassung zu fordern."
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In a move that’s deeply irritating some of the channel’s biggest fans, clips from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park have been removed from YouTube today following a DMCA from Viacom’s Comedy Central.
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So basically, the big TV distributors could pretty easily work out deals with content rightsholders to be everything Youtube wants to be, but have the inside track to get it done quickly since they are already paying money to the rightsholder and this wou
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Google “can spot pirated material very easily, can delete it very easily, can trace the source very easily ... that’s going to make future litigation very easy. ... They know that, we know that.”
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Die DFL hat die Überwachung des Netzes abgetreten an einen ausländischen Dienstleister namens Netresult, dessen Internet-Adresse schon sympathisch klingend www.copyrightcontrol.com heißt
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If you own a domain name, you are responsible for it and everything copyright related that is posted and happens on it. You MUST be the master of your own domain. If you are not able to be, you will be liable to any infringing acts on the domains you own.
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Die gestiegene Popularität von YouTube in Deutschland (mehr als drei Millionen Nutzer) hat nun auch hier hektische Betriebsamkeit in den Rechtsabteilungen ausgelöst. Alle großen Sendergruppen prüfen inzwischen rechtliche Möglichkeiten, gegen YouTube
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YouTube hat Paramount die Userdaten von Uploadern ausgehändigt, die fragliches Material hochgeladen haben. Der User wurde verklagt und YouTube hat einen Präzedenzfall geschaffen: Verklagt die User nicht uns!
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You may be watching YouTube, but YouTube is watching you too. YouTube actively worked with Paramount, suggesting that YouTube is very willing to work with content owners and users shouldn't expect protection from the site.
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3 of the major record labels sign some sort of deal with Gootube that rewards them with 40k shares of stock each, worth more than 15mm dollars that from appearances will allow Gootube to offer music videos for free from the Gootube site.
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Fake Sharing Sites: YouTube gives users very cool code to either “embed” content on other sites, or to effectively send links of content to other sites. But never does the system give users an easy way to actually get the content someone else has uplo
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The popular U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked by a group representing Japan's entertainment industry. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, foun
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Instead it’s two smaller players - Bolt.com and Grouper - that face the wrath of Universal’s lawyers and a possible $150,000 in damages for every infringement.
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The problem for YouTube is, blocked content has a way of flowing to other sources, and it will surely take viewers with it. New owners Google find themselves in a tight spot. They either get sued by unhappy content providers, or get abandoned by fans look
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it seems that YouTube aren’t going after these sites at the moment. And if they did, you’ve got to wonder where the line will be drawn: if a commercial blog posts a YouTube video, are they also breaking the ToS?
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I’m not against commercialization, but I have noticed YouTube becoming much more noisy over recent weeks. What’s changed is that the video site has become a major attractor of eyeballs, and eyeballs equal attention, fame and money.
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Three of the four major music companies each quietly negotiated to take small stakes in YouTube as part of video- and music-licensing deals they struck shortly before the sale, people involved in the talks said yesterday.
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News Corp., Viacom, and NBC Universal are threatening to seek damages of $150,000 for every copyrighted video posted, apparently in an attempt to pressure the site into offering them more favorable revenue-sharing deals.
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Analysts said that stepped-up monitoring by entertainment companies raises the likelihood that YouTube fans won't find what they're used to getting — and will go searching for the next online video rebel.1
