Start-up Attributor Raises $10 Million; Another Seeker Of Copyright Holy Grail

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Start-up Attributor Raises $10 Million; Another Seeker Of Copyright Holy Grail

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While YouTube, MySpace and others work on site-related solutions to the posting of unauthorized material, a company profiled in Monday’s WSJ is trying for a web-wide answer. Attributor Corp. co-founders Jim Pitkow, former chairman and CEO of Moreover, and Jim Brock, the lawyer who was first outside counsel and then Yahoo SVP for several years, claim their system can find unauthorized video, text, audio and images across the web. They told Kevin Delaney the Attributor index will have more than 10 billion web pages by the end of 2006. Founded last year, the Redwood City, Calif. start-up emerges from stealth mode with the announcement that it has raised about $10 million from a variety of investors including Sigma Partners, Selby Venture Partners, Draper Richards, First Round Capital and Amicus Capital.
How does it work? Clients provide Attributor with content for analysis and digital fingerprinting. Using the results, the system, now being tested, searches the web for matches and provides clients with a list of identified users. It’s up to the copyright holders to follow up although Attributor is working on an automated option. No immediate plans to monitor P2P swapping. The official release is slated for 1Q07 so we may have to wait to see if the emperor really is wearing new clothes.

Staci D. Kramer

@sdkstl Dec 17, 2006 11:16 PM ET

Posted In: Legal, Digital Rights Management, Search, Technologies / Formats

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what these assholes are all missing out on is the fact that a company like this, should be focused on turning the analyzation of content into something that makes real money not bullshit fucking make lawyers have to deposit shit out of their mouthes money. ie, make all video a catalogue so dumb people can idolize morons even more, i'm tired, ie, again, chick 43534736 wants to have the same nerd friendly vixen item of clothing jennifer aniston wears in season 5 episode 22 if friends, if the people, i almost said fucks, at attributor did their job well enough, that information would be known. merely playing tattle tail on whose fucking PRO FUCKING MOTING dead content or content that shouldn't even be alive, ie 3, 80 percent of that which is actually made, movies, all of mtv, the news (?). turn all that shit into a catalogue, for clothes, books, music and what the fuck ever else components go into the crap people spend their time sucking in, instead of doing that, they should pay those individuals who are uploading the content, and synchronize the advertising budgets for that content, there is money to be saved and made. oh YOUR FUCKING WELCOME, FUCK WODS {: