YouTube, Google's latest acquisition, removed 29,549 video files from its trendy Web site. A group of Japanese media companies, The Japan Society for Rights of Authors' had accused the video site of allowing its users to post television, music and movie clips without the permission of copyright holders. The media group also requested YouTube set up screening and other measures to block postings of unauthorized files

The Burns Convention, is a treaty which which requirreciprocityity with other countries copyright law, where contrastres must adhere to the copyright laws of other countries. As such, American companies such as Google, must not only respect the copyright law in this country, but those of other countries.