YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files following a request from the Japan Society for Rights, Authors, Composers and Publishers, which represents 23 film, TV and music companies. The content includes TV clips, music videos and videos dug out this month by the society’s researchers. The group may also ask YouTube to introduce some kind of screening process to stop illegal clips being posted on the site. The chatter is that now YouTube has a wealthy parent in Google, it is likely to face much more chance of legal action over the large amount of illegal content on the site. We’ll wait to see whether it chooses to deal with that through individual complaints, some kind of licence or through the kind of filtering system the Japanese society suggests.
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