This is interesting

[ksmith]

From daily_kos.

To deal with the mounting copyright issues swirling around video and other content online, a start-up founded by some respected Silicon Valley executives is taking a novel approach: combing the entire Web for unauthorized uses.

Privately held Attributor Corp. of Redwood City, Calif., has begun testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients' audio, video, images and text -- potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.


Rest of the story here.

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[thecurlyboy.livejournal.com]

Given that it supposedly can tell copyright infringment within a few sentences or seconds of video, and given that fair use of such things is typically a few sentences or seconds of video ... boy, this is gonna be a fun drama to watch.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

LJ's cooked, that's fer shure. Hell, the lead post is probably enough to get me in trouble.