You might remember that YouTube had a deadline of last Friday to respond to the demands of The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). The group, which consists of 23 powerful Japanese media associations, listed a string of concerns in a letter sent to YouTube on December 5th.
They wanted YouTube to automatically screen all uploads to see whether they contain copyrighted content (something YouTube is already working on), post a Japanese language warning about respecting copyright and delete any users who had posted copyrighted clips. JASRAC is the same organization that managed to get 30,000 YouTube clips deleted in October - one of the biggest purges so far. The deletion included clips from Sony Japan, Warner Japan and Universal Japan.