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Screening system for copyright?

Japan has asked YouTube to screen uploaded content in advance in order to avoid copyright infringement. This oughta be good. How do you do that at scale? How do you tell when something is copyrighted -- by someone who cares? Since everything is copyrighted, and it is the owners who say what concern they have, perhaps we'll get to every content owner having a digital mark, uniquely his/hers, with "creative commons"-like rights information embedded in it, to get at the rights allowed in that instance.

Will the new Lawrence Lessig-founded center, just funded with $2 million, tackle this problem, or problems like it? How will it go beyond the Creative Commons?

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 12:22