From the article:

Privately held Attributor Corp. of Redwood City, Calif., has begun testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients’ audio, video, images and text — potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use. Though its service isn’t out yet, Attributor appears to go further than existing techniques for weeding out unauthorized uses of content online. While companies are tackling parts of the same problem — Indigo Stream Technologies Ltd., based in Gibraltar, offers a free service called Copyscape that analyzes a Web page and then uses Google’s search engine to see whether the text is duplicated elsewhere on the Web — Attributor’s approach is seemingly more comprehensive.

Copyright Tool Will Scan Web For Violations.

Source: Wall Street Journal
Thanks to Pete W. for the news tip.

See Also: Reuters to deploy content monitoring solution from FAST (from RS, March 23, 2004)

See Also: Learn About BayTSP (from RS, July 21, 2003)
Includes link to San Francisco Chronicle article about BayTSP, a company that also uses its technology to scour the web for copyright infringement.

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