In a move to protect the rights of current and future content partners such as Sony/BMG and Showtime, ZVUE, a digital entertainment company, has entered into a partnership with Audible Magic, a provider of copyright-protection technology solutions.

By Elise AckermanSTAFF It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for$1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video advertising.

YouTube may provide a way for Google to easily and legally amass the world's biggest database of video, helping it figure out better ways to search that kind of material.

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video advertising.

By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Feb. 23--Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces -- rampant piracy.