YouTube copyrights in Japan

The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors is kind of a little upset at YouTube for the amount of content that is available on Google's service that their members own copyrights for. Just last December YouTube was ordered to delete 30,000 files that were in violation of Japanese rights holders. JASRAC sent out a letter recently to YouTube asking that they delete the files immediately when found during a five day audit of YouTube content. Needless to say, that didn't stop unauthorized content to pop up right after all of the deletions were made. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are scheduled to attend talks in Tokyo next week, with 's video content producers to discuss copyrighted material, and try to come up with a solution to the matter. Just last week Viacom sent out a letter ordering YouTube to take down over 100,000 copyrighted videos immediately. Google had apparently promised them that filtering tools would stop unauthorized content from getting through. Other companies like Warner Music are having a great time using the video giant's exposure in the marketplace.

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