Google’s Schmidt: YouTube’s “Claim Your Content” Copyright Protection Service Nearly Ready

Apr 17, 2007 at 9:06am ET by Barry Schwartz

Schmidt says YouTube ‘very close’ to filtering system from News.com reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt says his company is extremely close to launching the much anticipated but very delayed content identification system.

The system — which Schmidt called “Claim Your Content” — would automatically identify copyrighted material for fast removal.

No specific date was given to when the system will go live. Schmidt simply said, “we are very close to turning this on.”

For related coverage, see Techmeme.com.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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