According to a lawyer for YouTube (GOOG), the company believes they'll have video fingerprinting ready by September to deal with the illegal posting of copyrighted videos on its site. Philip S. Beck, lawyer for Google told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton this in a court in Manhattan, who is presiding over the copyright lawsuit be several media and sports companies.
The lawsuits filed by the Premier League from England, Viacom (VIA-B) and Bourne Co., an independent music publisher have been combined for trial purposes.
Viacom is seeking $1 billion in damages while the other two companies are seeking unspecified damages, along with profits from the company in connection to their copyrighted videos.
The video recognition technology being prepared is said to be as sophisticated as that used by the FBI.
In spite of this, Viacom lawyer Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. says that it'll take a year to reveal the extent of how much infringement has happened, and continues to happen on "a very massive scale."The battle is over whether the issue will be connected to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or if it's going to be considered "plain, old fashioned infringement," as Verrilli and his clients allege. The answer to that will determine the outcome of the case.
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