Creative work registry

Abstract

A third party servers communicatively coupled to a search engine server gather vectors to web content and delivers a report to registered creative work owners by identifying vectors to web content that contain similarities to their copyrighted creative works. The search engine server identifies similarities to the works of the registered owners of the creative works and provides protection by reporting to the registered owners as well as host third party servers, in case of textual, image, audio and video creative works. This service is an added value based service of the search engine server to the registered owners of the creative works upon service charge basis. The search engine server also provides additional services that include reporting to the host third party servers that contain web content having similarities to that of creative works of registered owners and assisting the third party servers to delete the content upon consideration.

1 . A web search infrastructure supporting a plurality of creative video works owners, the web search infrastructure comprising:
 a first processing infrastructure that identifies a plurality of hosted video content from at least one of a plurality of web hosting servers via an Internet crawling process, the Internet crawling process supporting browser based web searching;   a first communication interface through which the plurality of creative video works owners can register their plurality of creative video works;   a second processing infrastructure that attempts to identify relationships between the plurality of creative video works and the plurality of hosted video content; and   the second processing infrastructure via the first communication interface supports visual presentations for each of the plurality of creative video works owners regarding results of the attempted identification.   
     
     
         2 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , further comprising a billing service that charges the plurality of creative video works owners for services rendered. 
     
     
         3 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the second processing infrastructure supports communication regarding at least a portion of the results with a party responsible for hosting. 
     
     
         4 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the first processing infrastructure also identifies a plurality of hosted audio content via the Internet crawling process, and the second processing infrastructure also attempts to identify relationships between a plurality of creative audio works and the plurality of hosted audio content. 
     
     
         5 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the first processing infrastructure also identifies a plurality of hosted image content via the Internet crawling process, and the second processing infrastructure also attempts to identify relationships between a plurality of creative image works and the plurality of hosted image content. 
     
     
         6 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the second processing infrastructure considers associated text in the attempt identification of the relationships. 
     
     
         7 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the second processing infrastructure at least assists in prevent an unauthorized one of the plurality of hosted video content from being available via the Internet. 
     
     
         8 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the at least assisting comprising interacting with third party hosting sites. 
     
     
         9 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 1 , wherein the second processing infrastructure at least assists in preventing an unauthorized one of the plurality of hosted video content from being downloaded without paying a fee. 
     
     
         10 . A web search infrastructure supporting a plurality of creative works owners, the web search infrastructure comprising:
 a first processing infrastructure that identifies a plurality of hosted content from at least one of a plurality of web hosting servers via an Internet crawling process, the Internet crawling process supporting a plurality of browsers in related web searching;   a first communication interface through which the plurality of creative works owners can register their plurality of creative works;   a second processing infrastructure that attempts to identify relationships between the plurality of creative works and the plurality of hosted content; and   the second processing infrastructure at least assists in preventing at least one of uploads and downloads via the plurality of browsers without first collecting fees, the uploads and downloads relating to those of the plurality of hosted content having the identified relationship with any of the plurality of creative works.   
     
     
         11 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 10 , wherein the second processing infrastructure supports communication regarding an identified relationship. 
     
     
         12 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 11 , wherein communication involves a first of the plurality of creative works owners. 
     
     
         13 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 11 , wherein communication involves someone responsible for underlying hosting. 
     
     
         14 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 11 , wherein communication involves a first system associated with a first of the plurality of web hosting servers, and the communication causing first hosted content associated with the identified relationship from remaining available for distribution via the Internet. 
     
     
         15 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 10 , wherein the attempt identification involves translating a first of the plurality of creative works into a different format. 
     
     
         16 . The web search infrastructure of  claim 10 , wherein the attempt identification involves a creative work to hosted content comparison. 
     
     
         17 . A method performed by a web search infrastructure supporting a plurality of creative works owners, the method comprising:
 identifying a plurality of hosted content from at least one of a plurality of web hosting servers via an Internet crawling process, the Internet crawling process supporting a plurality of browsers in related web searching;   registering a plurality of creative works of the plurality of creative works owners;   identifying a relationship between a first work of the plurality of creative works and first hosted content of the plurality of hosted content; and   at least assisting in an attempt to curtail unauthorized distribution of the first hosted content.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the at least assisting comprises communicating to a first of the plurality of creative works owners. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the at least assisting comprises communicating to someone associated with hosting of the first hosted content. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the at least assisting comprises at least assisting in a fee collection associated with download attempts. 
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the at least assisting comprises interacting with a first of the at least one of the plurality of web hosting servers.