Determination of originality of content

A system comprising:

• means for receiving a content object posted to a web-based service, for distribution by the web-based service to the public;
• means for determining fingerprint data from a received content object;
• means for determining, by reference to determined fingerprint data, that the received content object includes content that at least partially matches controlled content;
• a graphical user interface through which owner specified inputs can be received by said system, said graphical user interface comprising a first interface, a second interface, and a third interface, in which the first interface is configured to receive geographical requirements, the second interface is configured to receive restrictions on an amount of allowed duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, and the third interface is configured to receive use restrictions;
• means for determining an amount of duplication between the received content object and the controlled content;
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• means for governing distribution of the content object based on:
• i) a determined amount of duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, ii) owner specified geographical requirements, iii) owner specified restrictions on an amount of allowed duplication between the received content object and the controlled content, and iv) owner specified use restrictions.

A system comprising:

• an interface for receiving content posted to a web-based service, for distribution by the web-based service to the public;
• a hardware processing unit configured for fingerprinting received content, and by reference to the computed fingerprint data, identifying copyrighted content included in the received content;
• a first user interface configured for obtaining owner-specified extent of copying requirements and owner-specified geographical requirements, both of which pertain to the identified copyrighted content;
• a hardware processing unit configured for controlling distribution of the received content from the web-based service, in accordance with the owner-specified extent of copying requirements, owner-specified geographical requirements, and a determined extent of copying between the received content and the identified copyrighted content;
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• a second user interface configured for presenting one or more items of user-posted content hosted by said web-based service that are identified as a match with the identified copyrighted content.

A system comprising:

• means for receiving content posted by a user to a web-based service, for distribution by said web-based service to the public, the received content including copyrighted content for which copyright is held by a copyright owner;
• means for computing fingerprint data from the received content;
• means for detecting and identifying, by reference to computed fingerprint data, the copyrighted content included in the received content;
• means for determining a copy extent score between the received content and the copyrighted content;
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• a first user interface that enables the copyright owner to specify a copy extent score for the copyrighted content, in which different copyright owners can specify different copy extent scores for their respective content;
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• means for governing distribution of the received content to the public in accordance with whether the determined copy extent score exceeds the specified copy extent score.