YouTube, Google Execs Meet With Japanese Group Over Copyright Complaints

YouTube has agreed to post copyright warnings in Japanase to assuage concerns of the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, AP reports. The group, which represents 23 Japanese media companies and organizations, protested copyright infringement on the site last year, demanding that YouTube remove nearly 30,000 clips. YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and Google VP David Eun met with the group Tuesday in Tokyo. One result: with a month or so (no idea why it would take so long) the English warning should be supplemented by one in Japanese.
The meeting ran for about two hours. Satoshi Watanabe, manager of JASRAC transmission rights department: “We are very satisfied with the direct negotiation realized and this should be a first step to carrying on… but their reply itself is not satisfactory today so we’d like to solve the issues.” The YouTube co-founders explained their filtering plans but with no time frame.