July 23, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Search engine provider Google (google.com) is hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies and concerts as well as broadcast and cable TV programs on Google Video, a nonprofit group is charging, including such new release movies as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Live Free or Die Hard and Sicko.
The potentially copyrighted videos were discovered by Falls Church, Virgina-based nonprofit organization National Legal and Policy Center that “focused on ethics and accountability in public life and private business.” The group released a list earlier this week of what it calls the Top 50 movies, cable programs and music concerts that Google is hosting on Google Video, including Sony Pictures’ Hollow Man 2 and episodes of NBC’s The Office.
Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker says that it can only remove potentially copyright-infringing material if the copyright holder files a formal complaint with Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. He says it is entirely possible that the copyright holders wanted the content in question to be uploaded to Google Video.
Stricker also said that Google is working with copyright holders to develop a system that will automatically alert Google to illegally posted content. NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm criticized Google is hiding behind the DCMA by requiring takedown notices.
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