
Google is opening up more channels for fielding copyright complaints about YouTube videos, thanks to a change in how the company monitors Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests via web search. Friday, Google announced it is tweaking its web search to take into account the number of DMCA takedown notices a website has received. These notices are used to tell a website copyrighted material owned by another party is being used somewhere on the site and that the copyright owner would like it taken off. Read the full story at VentureBeat.