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Google’s approach is quite inspirational.  It’s not centered around policing content when a complaint is filed as you may have been led to believe but rather giving the digital rights owners the power to choose how their content can be used before the copies are posted and it’s all thanks to technology that compares different aspects of each video  like background music or a video clip against known content.  If you consider that it’s not just comparing complete parts, but parts of each content and also that it has to perform this function on each part, every time a video is uploaded, for multiple countries, the computational power needed for one video alone is mind blowing.

BTW, “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TEDx program and the annual TED Prize. “