YouTube is wooing Japanese content owners after initial resistanceIn late 2006 a coalition of 23 of Japan's biggest TV broadcasters and copyright organisations, alarmed at the uncontrolled spread of their content on the Internet, were preparing to battle YouTube. Two years on, the video-sharing site has just signed a site-wide licensing agreement for its content and is telling Japanese content owners that user-uploads of copyrighted content aren't necessarily a threat.
