YouTube 'very close' to filtering system

By Greg Sandoval
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: April 16, 2007

LAS VEGAS--Google is very near enacting a filtering service that would prevent copyright content from being uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube, CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday.
Schmidt made the comments to about 300 people here at the National Association of Broadcasters conference during a one-on-one interview with John Seigenthaler, the former reporter with NBC's Nightly News.

The new system, which he called Claim Your Content, will automatically identify copyright material so that it can be removed, Schmidt said.