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YouTube in Japan to ease copyright concerns
YouTube is to meet with a Japanese media group in order to assuage fears over copyright infringement, it has emerged.

A statement from the Japan Society for Rights of Authors said that the video-sharing site would be sending a delegation to Japan to meet with the body.

The society filed a complaint with YouTube in October, to which the site's chief executive Chad Hurley and chief technical officer Steve Chen responded by posting a notice in Japanese warning users not to download copyrighted content.

However, the group, which represents 23 media companies and organisations, is not satisfied that YouTube has done enough.

"Although we have not finished our conclusion yet, they don't appear to be meeting our request 100 per cent," an official told Agence-France Presse.

"And our ultimate demand is to ask YouTube to introduce a preliminary system to delete copyrighted clips before they are uploaded."

YouTube was founded in 2005. It was bought in October by search engine giant Google for $1.65 billion (£0.84 billion).


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20 December 2006  14:40:15
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