RIAA President Cary Sherman recently posted a statement responding to last week’s summary judgement in the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube decrying the decision as a “dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the DMCA.” He also called it “bad public policy.”
He went on to claim the decision will “will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.”
This is nothing surprising coming from the RIAA. Like the MPAA and Business Software Alliance (BSA), they have consistently argued service providers should be responsibile for identifying copyright infringement rather than the content owners themselves.
But as Judge Louis Stanton pointed out in his decision on YouTube’s DMCA defense, this responsibility falls solely on the shoulders of the content owners except in rare cases where the infringement is obvious without any investigation.
He wrote, “The DMCA is explicit: it shall not be construed to condition “safe harbor” protection on “a service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeding facts indicating infringing activity.””
Judge Stanton went on to explain, “the present case shows that the DMCA notification regime works efficiently,” pointing out that it took less than a single business day for YouTube to remove nearly 100,000 videos once they received Viacom’s takedown notices.
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RIAA President Cary Sherman recently posted a statement responding to last week’s summary judgement in the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube decrying the decision as a “dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the DMCA.” He also called it “bad public policy.”
He went on to claim the decision will “will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.”
This is nothing surprising coming from the RIAA. Like the MPAA and Business Software Alliance (BSA), they have consistently argued service providers should be responsibile for identifying copyright infringement rather than the content owners themselves.
But as Judge Louis Stanton pointed out in his decision on YouTube’s DMCA defense, this responsibility falls solely on the shoulders of the content owners except in rare cases where the infringement is obvious without any investigation.
He wrote, “The DMCA is explicit: it shall not be construed to condition “safe harbor” protection on “a service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeding facts indicating infringing activity.””
Judge Stanton went on to explain, “the present case shows that the DMCA notification regime works efficiently,” pointing out that it took less than a single business day for YouTube to remove nearly 100,000 videos once they received Viacom’s takedown notices.
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NEC has announced today that its video content identification technology will be supported in the upcoming MPEG-7 video standard, meaning content owners that release videos with the standard can “detect illegal copies” uploaded to the Internet almost instantly.
The company says each frame has its own unique signature, meaning that doing any editing to the file or analog or camera copies will completely alter the overall signature of the original video.
NEC says “these developments are expected to significantly reduce the time and cost of manual content inspections as well as improve the scale and accuracy of content assessment.”
Among the features of the video content identification technology are:
Accurate detection of copied or altered video content
Video signatures are extracted for each frame based on differences in the luminance between sets of sub-regions on a frame that are defined by a variety of locations, sizes, and shapes. Video signatures represent a unique fingerprint that can be individually detected frame by frame. This technology is capable of accurately detecting video content with that was created with such editing operations as analog capturing (*3), re-encoding (*4) and caption overlay (*5), which was conventionally very difficult to detect.
A high detection rate and low false positive rate for all video contents
By estimating confidence of signatures generated from each frame and using the confidence for sequence identification, the technology achieves a high detection rate (*6) with a very low false positive rate (*7). These technologies achieved an average detection rate of 96% at a very low false alarm rate of 5ppm (5 in one million) through tests conducted by the international standardization organization.
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