Could filtering become a fiasco for YouTube?

Om Malik | Saturday, March 24, 2007 | 9:23 PM PT | 1 comment

YouTube’s defense against claims of copyright infringement has long been the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clears service providers from liability related to material transmitted through their systems. But if Google were to implement copyright filters, proactively screening content before it’s posted to the site, would YouTube leave the safe harbor of DMCA? Continue Reading…

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