Dec 9, 2010: KKK Wedding

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by richlevy

I think that it's a legal or technological defense against being accused of copyright infringement. I've seen other reversed videos of TV shows.

I had been told that YouTube has a scanning algorithm (that of course they will not admit to as it would be proprietary) that can match any uploaded video against a database of copyrighted data, thus weeding out at least a certain number of the copyright violations without the need for a human to view each one. Flip the image, and it no longer matches.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I had been told that YouTube has a scanning algorithm (that of course they will not admit to as it would be proprietary) that can match any uploaded video against a database of copyrighted data, thus weeding out at least a certain number of the copyright violations without the need for a human to view each one. Flip the image, and it no longer matches.

Margaret Gould Stewart discusses it here on TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_st...copyright.html