In January, media companies like Viacom, Time Warner and the Walt Disney Company backed two antipiracy bills, one in the Senate and the other in the House of Representatives, while Internet activists and companies like Google and Facebook argued the bills would hinder Internet freedom. Buoyed by a huge online grass-roots movement, and aided by Wikipedia's going black for a day in protest, the bills quickly died.
That tension has decreased somewhat as media companies have met with Silicon Valley executives over how to solve the problem to everyone's satisfaction.
Google said it would not remove pages from copyright-infringing Websites from its search engine unless it received a valid copyright removal notice from the rights' owner. "Only copyright holders know if something is authorized, and only courts can decide if a copyright has been infringed," Mr. Singhal said.
Google said it had received copyright removal requests for over 4.3 million Web addresses in the last 30 days, according to the company's transparency report. That is more than it received in all of 2009.
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