Google To Add Copyright Technology To YouTube

London (dBTechno) - Google has announced plans to implement a digital video fingerprint screening technology to prevent pirated clips being posted on YouTube, according to a company spokesperson Monday.

Copyright status will reportedly be determined in minutes, reported TechShout.Com.

“We hope to have the testing completed and technology available by sometime in the Fall. But this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken… it’s difficult to forecast specific launch dates,” a spokesman said.

Louis Solomon, one of several attorneys pursuing huge lawsuits against Google for past infringement, said the implementation would be too late to affect the lawsuit but encouraged the company to “treat all content providers fairly.”

iTWire’s Stan Beer notes, “Last year, YouTube was supposed to implement a copyright filtering system by the end of the year. Then early this year a rumour surfaced that YouTube would license content filtering technology from Audible Magic. Then in April, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said YouTube would soon release a copyright filtering system soon.”

In response to previous lawsuits YouTube said 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.