YouTube has become a treasure trove for rare live editions, outtakes and covers of popular songs - the latter making stars out of acts like Pomplamoose. However, Google and the recording industry don't feel the same way, but the site's famous content filtering system can only handle exact matches of recorded songs - so that 14-year-old moppet's cover version of Born this Wayremains unfiltered. That could change should a patent application made available today result in a workable product.
Engadget, Google patent application could mean melody-matching for YouTube
