Patent ID: 9031919
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of responding to a use of controlled content, including: executing, by a processor, an audio or video fingerprint analysis of controlled content; providing a user interface indicating a match of controlled content determined from the audio or fingerprint analysis, and providing, in the user interface, selectable options for instructing actions to be taken in response to the match, the options including removal of matching controlled content from a hosting site; obtaining by a processor evidence of a copyright violation of controlled content by a content user, the evidence including evidence of the match and input to the user interface instructing one of the actions to be taken in response to the match, and wherein the controlled content is made available for access without protection from a usage that does not comply with one or more usage rules associated with the controlled content, and wherein the content user is notified of one or more usage rules, and wherein the one or more usage rules comprise rules for users of the controlled content to follow; automatically determining by a processor whether the use is a non-compliant use of the controlled content based in part on the evidence of a copyright violation, and information from a database that maintains data of prior evidence that the content user has made unauthorized use of copyrighted content of others; and in response to a determined non-compliant use, automatically sending a communication to the content user notifying the content user of the non-compliant use of the controlled content and requesting modification of the use by the content user of the controlled content.