After a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement, hugely popular video-sharing site YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 files.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, found 29,549 violative video clips - television shows, music videos and movies - on YouTube. said spokesman Fumiyuki Asakura on Friday, Oct. 20, adding that YouTube rapidly cooperated with the request to remove the copyrighted materials, made on behalf of 23 Japanese TV stations and entertainment companies.
The majority of videos on YouTube are homemade, however it also features numerous examples of copyrighted material posted by individual users. YouTube's policy is to remove such clips after it receives complaints. Industry watchers have suggested YouTube might eventually be sued, especially with deep-pocketed Google Inc. about to buy it for $1.65 billion in stock.
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