Google Inc.'s David Eun, vice president of content partnerships, recently
spoke with The Deal's Alain Sherter. In the Q&A, Eun addresses concerns about Internet industry consolidation giving too much control to specific firms, such as his. He points to all of Google's free services and the use of outside services and applications. For mobile services, he talks of looking for deals across the entire value chain -- OEMs, carriers or application providers.
Sherter also asked Eun (pictured) about the controversy over copyrights, i.e. YouTube Inc. videos. Eun responds, "Last year, at the time of our acquisition of YouTube, we were the most advanced company in terms of creating tools for content owners to inform us when their content was on our site so we could take it down.
In the meantime, we've also invested in video identification technologies, which is basically a suite of tools that allow us to work with content owners to help identify their videos when they're uploaded and give them a choice of taking it down, monitoring it or what we call embracing it."
Before Google, Eun was chief of staff for the media and communications group of Time Warner Inc. Before that, he was a partner at Arts Alliance, a VC firm focusing on digital media, IT and business services. Eun started his career in media at NBC, where he led some of NBC's first cross-media initiatives involving television programming, the Internet and retail consumer products. Eun is a former management consultant with Bain & Co.
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