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YouTube is developing audio fingerprinting 28 January 2007

Posted by Adrian Pegg in IPTV, Media, technology.
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This story could be far more important than the angle they are taking on Podcasting News.

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley talks about audio fingerprinting technology they are developing, which will allow the music used in videos to be identified (and charged for) by the collection agencies. Shazam has been doing this sort of thing for some time now via mobile phones so there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be possible.

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1. Podcasting News - 28 January 2007

Adrian

Good point – I’d agree that music filtering is an important issue for people to be aware of – but it’s something YouTube has been discussing for months. This was the first official word we’d seen, though, on their plans to pay people for their posts.

YouTube content filtering could become a big issue, because a big portion of YouTube’s content includes non-licensed music. At some point, the music industry could tell YouTube to yank this stuff, or just take any revenue generated by infringing videos.

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2. ajpegg - 28 January 2007

Thanks.

I am sure you have more access to inside information than I do, but could it be that the labels may see this as a way of managing the use of non-licenced content, and thereby allowing it by creating an appropriate licence, rather than just taking the revenue as a sort of punishment for infringement?

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