Article: YouTube caves in anti-piracy talks with Japanese rights owners.

Google, as many such as HDNet co-founder Mark Cuban predicted, has its hands full with YouTube's numerous copyright transgressions. And, it's being forced to make concessions to copyright owners.

Google sent some of its senior YouTube staff, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, plus Google VP David Eun, to Tokyo to meet with 23 companies and groups of copyright owners on February 6. The move was in response to a letter the copyright holders sent to YouTube on December 4 of last year.

As a result of the meeting, YouTube promised to display in Japanese the warning "not to upload audio-visual contents which are not authorized by the right ...

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