• Hollywood Reporter, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:15 PM

With all the copyright attention focused firmly on YouTube, it seems Google has conveniently forgotten about copyright violations on Google Video, the Web giant's other online video property. The Hollywood Reporter says that among other titles it easily found Walt Disney Pictures' "Cars" and "Meet the Robinsons," Picturehouse's "Pan's Labyrinth," and HBO's "Da Ali G Show during a recent search at video.google.com on Monday -- along with Michael Moore's "Sicko," which had been taken down after much press coverage of its first appearance on the site.

Meanwhile, the National Legal and Policy Center on Tuesday released a list of the top 50 videos found on Google Video, which like YouTube contains video uploaded by users. The NLPC said the top 50 videos appeared for an average of 168 days on the site. Chairman Ken Boehm said the organization made no assumption about whether those clips were illegally uploaded, but chances are that most were. Nevertheless, Boehm said the NLPC aims to raise awareness of rampant piracy on sites like Google Video and YouTube.

Google -- as ever -- placed blame on the shoulders of major studios for not identifying copyrighted content, which would promptly be taken down. Like many before him, Boehm pointed out that a company of Google's technological stature could do much more to curb the problem: "Google has been dragging its feet for months in coming up with a solution to pirated content," Boehm said, adding that "smaller companies are beginning to show real leadership on this issue."

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