YouTube Inc. has now deleted around 30,000 videos that contain copyright infringement material based on a response from The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers, and Publishers.   ”The group found the files posted by users without authorization from Japanese copyright holders during research done earlier this month, Mr. Asakura said [Wall Street Journal].”  Fumiyuki Asakura is an official of the The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers, and Publishers organization.

YouTube was quick to respond by deleting the 29,549 files which contain clips of music and movies of which contain content from the Japanese media.  Mr. Asakura also mentioned that The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers, and Publishers organization is considering asking YouTube to have more strict policies on upload content.

Even before YouTube was acquired by Google Inc during its prime growth phase, YouTube was estimating an average of 65,000 videos uploaded daily, so it would be tough to moderate that many incoming videos.  However, Google has been somewhat strong in preventing copyright material finding itself on Google Video, so perhaps Google may intervene and step-up the YouTube moderation process.

[Previous Pulse 2.0 YouTube coverage]