Site directed management of audio components of uploaded video files

摘要

A system, method and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identified unlicensed audio content in video files uploaded by users, and initiate a process by which the user can replace the unlicensed content with licensed audio content. An audio replacement tool is provided that enables the user to permanently mute the original, unlicensed audio content of a video file, or select a licensed audio file from a collection of licensed audio, and insert the selected in place of the original audio.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of identifying and replacing unlicensed audio content in video files, the method comprising:
storing a plurality of video files at a video hosting website, each video file including audio content; selecting, by a computer, a video file from the plurality of video files for processing for unlicensed audio content, the selected video file including video content and audio content that were combined before the selected video file was uploaded to the video hosting website by a client device of a user; processing the audio content included in the selected video file to determine whether the audio content thereof is unlicensed for use on the video hosting website; responsive to the audio content being an unlicensed audio content:
providing to the user that uploaded the video to the video hosting website a list of selectable licensed audio files, wherein each selectable licensed audio file is licensed for use on the video hosting website and is selectable to replace the audio content included in the video file;receiving a selection of a licensed audio file from the list of selectable licensed audio files from the user;replacing the audio content included in the video file with the user selected licensed audio file; and publishing the video file including the user selected licensed audio file on the video hosting website.