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Ethics group searches Google for copyright infringement
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A US ethics group has urged Congress to scrutinise Google's copyright control after finding hundreds of evidently pirated movies available online on the Internet Search leaders website.The non-profit group, which says it has no financial ties to the movie industry is best known for helping to expose the corruption scandal with the US Air Force and Boeing Co. in 2003.
The issues raised to Congress focus on content from Google.com and other Google domains, rather than its more popular media website YouTube.com.
The non-profit group were noted to say that "Google is more worried about it’s own profits then the intellectual property of Hollywood studios".
Google says it adheres to federal law by removing unauthorized content whenever asked by copyright owners.
Bruce Sunstein a specialist IP lawyer based in Boston stated that "Google probably remains on solid legal ground … The law will favour Google as long as they are diligent in taking down videos".
In a statement, Google said that it was working on a new technology to be released in the not-too-distance future that would help copyright owners block unauthorised content material from being posted on the site.
"As a company that respects the rights of copyright holders, we work every day to help them manage their content, and we are developing state-of-the-art tools to let them do that even better," Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said.
