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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 06 December 2006 | |
  
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Despite the action of Google-owned YouTube, however, many Japanese copyright videos have once again been posted to the site, which has highlighted a weakness in the YouTube policy and incensed Japanese copyright holders. As a result, JASRAC and another 22 peak organizations representing the major video, film and TV broadcasters in Japan sent a letter to YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and CTO Steve Chen demanding that the company implement a proactive system of identifying and removing copyright infringements rather than waiting for requests. Interestingly, the group also includes the Japanese branch of Google nemesis Yahoo. The Japanese group also demanded that until YouTube implements proactive anti-copyright technology, the video sharing site should post a message in Japanese warning users that they may be prosecuted for posting copyright infringing videos, keep a register of names and addresses and terminate accounts of illegal posters. So far, the Japanese group has stopped short of threatening to sue YouTube, unlike Universal Music which is suing social networking site MySpace for similar alleged violations of copyright. However, the group has imposed a deadline of December 15 for YouTube to respond to its demands. {moscomment} |
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