Media companies unveil copyright guidelines for online content

Some of the world’s biggest Internet and media companies have joined together to offer a set of guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online.The idea is to enable the growth and development of user-generated content online without violating the copyrights of the content owners, according to a statement released by CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks Inc., Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co.”The principles acknowledge a collective respect for protecting copyrights and recognize that filtering technologies must be effective and are only a part of what is necessary to achieve this goal,” according to the statement.The User Generated Content Principles advocate using technology to eliminate content uploaded by users that infringes on a copyright as well as blocking copyright-infringing material that was uploaded before it was made publicly available.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138644/article.htmlAlso see:Media companies in copyright pact, Google absent [Reuters]
Viacom Inc., Walt Disney Co., Microsoft Corp. and other media companies have agreed to a set of guidelines to protect copyrights online but Google Inc., owner of the Web’s biggest video site, was notably absent from the pact.The companies agreed to use technology to eliminate copyright-infringing content uploaded by Web users and to block any pirated material before it is publicly accessible.
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http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-copy19oct19,1,4576010.storyMedia groups challenge Google on copyright
Media groups including Disney, News Corp and Microsoft agreed a set of standards to govern the way that copyright law and anti-piracy measures should be applied to video and music on the internet
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e1cd1c0e-7d89-11dc-9f47-0000779fd2ac.htmlMedia, Web Companies Set Copyright Rules
Conspicuously absent was Google Inc., whose YouTube Web site this week rolled out its own technology to filter copyrighted videos once they’ve been posted.
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