By Dave Porter
(AXcess News) Reno - Lawsuits brought against Google's YouTube video sharing site by a host of sources from Viacom to England's top soccer league has forced the company to install recognition technology to detect videos which have been protected by copyright.
Philip Beck, the attorney representing YouTube told U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan that YouTube was close to launching a video recognition technology as sophisticated as fingerprint technology the FBI uses and that it hoped to have it in place this fall, perhaps by September.
The lawsuits were combined before the U.S. District Court in Manhattan for trial purposes making Stanton the sitting Judge to hear the cases.
Despite YouTube's cooperation in the copyright infringement claims, lawyers for the plaintiffs say the video networking site could have done something sooner rather than wait until it was forced into court.
Viacom, probably the largest claimant in the video copyright infringement case is seeking $1 billion in damages from video clips that the cable company says will take until next year to figure out the extent of the infringement, saying it "continues to happen on a very massive scale."
YouTube has argued in its defense that it goes beyond what is required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which gives Web hosts protection from copyright lawsuits so long as they comply with requests to remove unauthorized material.
Judge Stanton will most likely not rule on the Act itself which could put any settlement off in federal appeals court. What Stanton is looking for is damages suffered by the video copyright infringement, not an interpretation of federal legislation.
Source: http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/11803
(AXcess News) Reno - Lawsuits brought against Google's YouTube video sharing site by a host of sources from Viacom to England's top soccer league has forced the company to install recognition technology to detect videos which have been protected by copyright.
Philip Beck, the attorney representing YouTube told U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan that YouTube was close to launching a video recognition technology as sophisticated as fingerprint technology the FBI uses and that it hoped to have it in place this fall, perhaps by September.
The lawsuits were combined before the U.S. District Court in Manhattan for trial purposes making Stanton the sitting Judge to hear the cases.
Despite YouTube's cooperation in the copyright infringement claims, lawyers for the plaintiffs say the video networking site could have done something sooner rather than wait until it was forced into court.
Viacom, probably the largest claimant in the video copyright infringement case is seeking $1 billion in damages from video clips that the cable company says will take until next year to figure out the extent of the infringement, saying it "continues to happen on a very massive scale."
YouTube has argued in its defense that it goes beyond what is required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which gives Web hosts protection from copyright lawsuits so long as they comply with requests to remove unauthorized material.
Judge Stanton will most likely not rule on the Act itself which could put any settlement off in federal appeals court. What Stanton is looking for is damages suffered by the video copyright infringement, not an interpretation of federal legislation.
Source: http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/11803
