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Submitted: December 18, 2006 - 9:25am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:04am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:04am
COPYRIGHT TOOL WILL SCAN WEB FOR VIOLATIONS
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Kevin J. Delaney kevin.delaney@wsj.com]
To deal with the mounting copyright issues swirling around video and other content online, a start-up founded by some respected Silicon Valley executives is taking a novel approach: combing the entire Web for unauthorized uses. Privately held Attributor Corp. of Redwood City, Calif., has begun testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients' audio, video, images and text -- potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.
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