Google says it will implement an automated filtering system this autumn that will stop music videos and other copyrighted material from finding their way onto its YouTube site without permission. But for the work of identifying allegedly infringing material is done by humans.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a company called BayTSP has hired over 20 analysts, which it pays $11/hour and up to scour the site for its clients' material in the recently uploaded section of YouTube and a few other sites.
In some cases, they have a standing order to issue takedown notices for anything they find; in others, the analysts log allegedly infringing videos and then issue one big takedown notice consisting of hundreds of thousands of them.
