YouTube said back in September that the company's copyright-enforcing software would be rolled out by the end of the year, alleges the Financial Times - today, it's pretty clear that won't happen. It seems the FT approached YouTube to inquire about the deadline, and was told that while the platform had been in testing since October, it hasn't been rolled out fully.
A YouTube spokesperson said that the company "had never promised general availability by the end of the year", despite the fact that an AP story in October referred to the "end of the year" claim (linked to and paraphrased in this post, but no longer available online). Meanwhile, YouTube is also being pestered by the Japanese media group JASRAC for failing to put up a Japanese copyright notice.