YouTube can't filter two sets of critics

October 26, 2007 The lead lawyer in the growing class-action lawsuit by content owners called it "wholly inadequate." More surprising is the skepticism offered by the other side of the debate -- the proponents of "fair use" who say YouTube's video identification system goes too far. YouTube parent Google says the filtering tools, still in a testing phase, will require copyright owners like Hollywood studios to submit their content to YouTube, which will create an archive to "match" with videos uploaded to the site.

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