Video Fingerprinting

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YouTube will be testing tools that will be able to tell if a video has been uploaded to the site without the copyright owner’s permission.

These video fingerprinting tools, which identify unique attributes in the video clips, will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said.

If testing is successful, the uploading of copyrighted clips could be prevented. YouTube plans to make the tools widely available to any copyright owner later this year.

MTV Networks-owner Viacom Inc. sued Google and YouTube for more than $1 billion in damages in March, charging intentional copyright infringement and demanded the removal of clips of "Colbert Report" and "Daily Show."