Sunday, November 04, 2007

VIACOM wants an industry wide Internet filter for copyrighted material:

PC World: Viacom CEO Dismisses Google Antipiracy Plan
Viacom Inc.'s president and CEO took a swipe at Google Inc.'s announcement earlier this week of plans to launch a video-blocking tool aimed at allowing content owners to intercept copyrighted clips as they are uploaded to Google's video site YouTube.

Viacom's Philippe Dauman said at the Web 2.0 Summit here that instead of a proprietary system to block content that may infringe on copyright, there needs to be an industry standard for that type of effort.

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