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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Google CEO knocks Viacom tactics in piracy suit

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    Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:31pm EDT

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    Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of Google Inc., is interviewed by Reuters in Palo Alto, California in this November 11, 2006 file photo. Google Inc. is ready to introduce a copyright protection tool that helps media owners to automatically report acts of piracy on its YouTube video site, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Kimberly White

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O) is ready to introduce a copyright protection tool that helps media owners to automatically report acts of piracy on its YouTube video site, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday.

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    Schmidt said the new tools, known as "Claim Your Content" could resolve accusations that the world's largest provider of Web search services is tolerating piracy by consumers to share video on its YouTube site.

    That complaint is featured in a high-profile lawsuit filed last month by media conglomerate Viacom Inc. (VIA.N) that seeks more than $1 billion in damages from Google for alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

    "As that product rolls out, the issue becomes moot," Schmidt said in response to questions from an interviewer's question about how the tool might affect the suit. "We are automating that process to claim that content."
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