YouTube, owned by Google Inc., will use technology to recognize copyright-infringing videos on its site by this fall, according to a lawyer for the popular Web site Sunday.
The lawyer, Philip S. Beck, told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton in Manhattan that YouTube was working "very intensely and cooperating" with major content companies on video recognition technology as sophisticated as the fingerprint technology used by the F.B.I.
Beck said the video recognition technology would allow owners of videos to provide a digital fingerprint so that if anyone tried to share a video that infringed copyrights, the system would remove it within a minute or so.
The Viacom, the music publisher Bourne and the Premier League, England's top soccer league, have filed lawsuits against YouTube that were combined for trial purposes before Judge Stanton.
The Viacom sought one billion U.S. dollars in damages for what it said was the unauthorized viewing of its programming from MTV, Comedy Central and other networks, such as "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." In their lawsuits, Bourne and the Premier Leagure sought unspecified damages and any profits YouTube had made as a result of the sharing of copyrighted videos.
YouTube said in response to the lawsuits that it goes beyond what is required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which gives Web hosts protection from copyright lawsuits as long as they comply with requests to remove unauthorized material.
YouTube said it cooperates with holders of copyrights and immediately complies with requests to remove unauthorized material.
Source:Xinhua/agencies
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