October 19, 2007

Companies set guidelines on copyrighted video

According to USA Today, a coalition of major media and Internet companies including Walt Disney, Viacom, CBS, NBC Universal, News Corp., Microsoft, MySpace, Veoh Networks and Dailymotion Thursday issued a set of guidelines for handling copyright-protected videos on large user-generated sites such as MySpace.

"... The incentive for the coalition's websites and others to comply is the media companies' promise not to sue if any copyrighted material sneaks past their best efforts to block it.

The guidelines, which do not apply to search engines, e-mail or browsers, are designed for sites that host user-generated clips — like YouTube.

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