Google agrees to show an antipiracy message to their Japanese YouTube.com users

Google agrees to show an antipiracy message to their Japanese YouTube.com users

Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) has said that the search engine giant Google has agreed to display warnings on its Web site in Japanese not to upload copyright materials to the world’s most popular video sharing service.

This decision was taken as part of the discussions going on between Google and the group which represents the Japanese media firms.

The group has also gotten as many as 30,000 clips erased from Google owned YouTube.com service last year which infringed on their copyright.

Google continues to face protests from media content developers who claim that the YouTube.com service contributes in spreading digital piracy enabling people to host copyrighted videos.

Ryohei Ishii, a manager from public broadcaster NHK said on this issue: “YouTube isn’t illegal, but what’s problematic is that pirated contents are being uploaded.”

Hideki Matsutake, representing Japan’s Council of Performers’ Organizations added: “We didn’t reach that level of discussion today, but it would be ideal if we could eventually shake hands and form a deal”.

YouTube had this to say: “YouTube respects copyright and have cooperated with a number of copyright owners in the past. It’s important to us that we had the chance to speak to Japanese organizations, and aim to continue exchanging ideas with them constructively.”