YouTube automatically recognizes music in movies that users post. If the music is copyrighted the users will receive an email stating that they're violating copyright laws. Exception is a condition where YouTube is allowed to exploit the video through advertising.

Future Vision by Erwin Van Lun on this article

Currently solely on YouTube and solely music, but soon all faces, all voices and all license plates, in every photo, video or audio fragment will be recognized all over the internet, wherever they’re placed, wherever we were, whatever language we spoke. We can conjure up the baptism of someone’s life effortlessly, a hundred times more detailed than we currently can. Only a society in which we’ve formed world wide ideals and values on how to handle this dizzying amount of data can handle this. How do you meet someone you know everything about and who knows everything about you in return? It’s going to take a new generation of inhabitants of this planet.

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