YouTube is planning to roll out a new system in September that will be designed to stop copyrighted material from being uploaded. Will this mean even videos under the protection of “fair use” will be banned?
Google, which acquired YouTube in October, plans to generate a library of digital video fingerprints that would be used by a computer system to screen clips being uploaded to YouTube, said Philip Beck, one of the attorneys representing Google and YouTube. Beck added that the screening process would take only a few minutes to determine whether a clip is copyright material.
