Google’s YouTube is set to have video fingerprinting software tested and enabled sometime in the fall according to statements made in court on Friday. The statements were made during the initial hearing of the Viacom trial against YouTube owner Google. Viacom sued Google in March over copyright infringement seeking $1 billion in damages. According to Associated Press wire reports, Google said they were working “very intensely” on a video recognition technology, which is said to add another layer of protection for copyright holders such as Viacom.
Viacom, known as the father to such shows as South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Reno 911, each from Comedy Central, as well as MTV, MTV2, Nickelodeon, CMTV, and several other stations and programming, ordered the removal of any video on YouTube that contained footage, images, and likenesses of any of their shows. It was a popular pastime in several offices to surf to YouTube and watch the Daily Show each day after it aired the night before. Clips were often posted almost instantly. Then earlier this year Viacom issued a removal order under the DMCA that caused the removal of several hundred thousand videos from the popular website. The backlash was that the removal order caused is still being seen today.
Viacom, and by proxy YouTube, faced a storm of negative press when some of the removed clips had nothing to do with copyrighted material. Likewise, those that could have been flagged as infringing on copyright, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), used the content under fair use and were not subject to removal. All the while, Viacom sued Google for $1 billion because they fail to prevent the uploading of the copy written works to their website. Google maintains that they are doing nothing wrong, and are complying with the DMCA by removing the offending material as soon as they are asked.
Source: tech.monstersandcritics.com
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