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Article: Audible Magic emerging as top copyright cop in digital era; Online video sites are adopting its filtering tools
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2007
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LOS GATOS, Calif. - Vance Ikezoye didn't set out to become one of
the digital revolution's top copyright cops when he first began
tinkering with the technology that launched Audible Magic Corp.
At first, all he was looking for was a better way to identify
songs and advertisements broadcast on the radio.
But Ikezoye's ambitions have shifted with the media landscape,
positioning Audible Magic to control what can and can't be watched on
the Internet. Online video sites are adopting its filtering tools to
prevent the kind of copyright trouble that provoked a legal battle
between Viacom Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube.com.
"It's been an interesting ride," said Ikezoye, Audible Magic's 49-
year-old ...