Contrary to recent speculation , an antipiracy creature Google is uprise for YouTube will not block uploads to the video - sharing site .

Instead , the peter will check videos after they are put on YouTube and slacken off those that match legitimate material submit by copyright proprietor and compiled by Google into a library of qualified uploads , a Google spokesman said .

When the digital - fingerprinting tool finds a mates in the library , it will take predetermined actions , such as publish an qui vive , bump off the time or both , said Google spokesman Ricardo Reyes .

In this way , the digital fingerprinting tool stay logical with descriptions of its core design made by aged Google executives in late calendar month .

It is also congruent with Google ’s position that YouTube is on the right side of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) as long as it removes , upon request , illegally replicate TV that owners do n’t want uploaded without their permission .

The putz became news program on Friday , when a Google lawyer briefly trace it during a routine audience in the copyright - infringement cause that Viacom lodge against the hunt - engine company .

Responding to a asking for clarification from IDG News Service , Google ’s Reyes said that the putz has always been based on digital- fingerprint engineering that will flag picture clip after they have been upload to YouTube .

It is the same prick that Google CEO Eric Schmidt described in April during the society ’s first - tail earnings call , Reyes order . At the time , Schmidt said the putz was n’t being designed to filtrate out and lug hijack videos , but rather to help to “ middling automate ” the physical process through which content owners flag illegally copy video so Google can take them from the land site .

“ It ’s not a filter system . The technology does n’t hinder uploads , ” Schmidt said in April . “ It makes it much more effective and quicker to get us to transfer inappropriately uploaded subject matter . It ’s very much compliant with the DMCA . ”

The tool is still in development and testing , so some feature have n’t been nail down yet , Reyes said , add that Google is now testing the shaft ’s f number and scalability . “ I do n’t have the answers to all the questions [ about how the tool work ] . We are at very early stages of testing the engineering science , ” Reyes said .

On Friday , attorney Philip S. Beck of Barlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton that Google would endeavor to deliver the video recognition peter by September , harmonize to published reports and a hearing copy provided by Viacom , which otherwise decline comment .

“ Somebody who has a copyrighted video … would provide it to us and say ‘ we do n’t want this up on YouTube . ’ We ’re developing a way to take basically an electronic or picture or digital fingermark of this stuff so that if somebody does endeavor to upload it , within a min or so the computers will figure out that that ’s one of the items that the copyright owner said they do n’t want up on the system , and we would be able to pull that down until any issues are resolved , ” Beck said , harmonise to the transcript , which Viacom obtained from the lawcourt .

Reyes stressed that Google is n’t developing this putz to follow with any police force , but rather to assist copyright owners fleur-de-lis videos they do n’t need up on YouTube .

“ The DMCA does n’t need us to make any of these tools available . The DMCA demand us to take down the content when notified . This just make it comfortable for hoi polloi to droop content , for content owner to notify us , ” Reyes said . “ At the remnant of the day , we do n’t require infringe content up there either . That ’s what it comes down to . ”

Google already has audio recording - acknowledgment applied science in place at YouTube , as well as a mechanism for content owners to manually flag uploaded videos , Reyes read . In gain , Google bans users who violate YouTube ’s terms of service three time , he said .

The digital - fingerprinting tool may not be the last such dick Google develops , Reyes aver . “ It ’s all part of the ‘ Claim your Content ’ engineering science which is a family of creature . This video - designation engineering would be the late creature we would volunteer . It wo n’t inevitably be the last peter because we ’re go away to keep trying to innovate in this area , ” Reyes said .

Viacom sued Google in March in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , alleging right of first publication infringement from YouTube and seeking $ 1 billion in damages .

Friday ’s hearing was a procedural one mean to place the schedule for the vitrine . The scheduling was n’t completed , so another conference was set for Aug. 6 .

Google get YouTube in November of last year in a $ 1.65 billion deal .