MySpace feature guards video copyrights

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — MySpace on Friday launched a feature that blocks the re-posting of video clips after copyright owners complained about them being on the social-networking website.

"Take Down Stay Down" is the first sophisticated copyright protection tool to be deployed by an Internet firm, according to MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media owned by News Corporation.

"We have created this new feature to solve a problem that has long frustrated copyright holders and presented technical challenges to service providers," said Fox general counsel Michael Angus.

"How to prevent copyrighted content from being reposted by the same or a different user after it has been taken down by the copyright owner."

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