YouTube to start filtering for pirated video?
YouTube will start filtering videos and other content in order to stop pirated material from being posted to it site, reports the Mercury News’ Elise Ackerman.
The news is significant because the entire music and video industry has been up in arms about YouTube’s slowness to implement filtering.
YouTube’s parent, Google, will use technology from Los Gatos, Calif.’s Audible Magic, the same technology that MySpace is offering media companies to check whether for their copyrighted material… Continue Reading
Viacom orders YouTube to remove more than 100,000 video clips
Viacom, owner of a vast stable of videos, has requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized video clips from its site.
This comes after months of negotiation between Google and other entertainment content owners like Viacom. Story here, by Merc’s Elise Ackerman.
“It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users,” the entertainment giant said in a statement. “Filtering tools promised… Continue Reading
Tagworld, social networking company, raises money from MTV
TagWorld, a Santa Monica, Calif. social networking company, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Viacom unit MTV Networks, according to Paidcontent.org.
(First posted 1/18)