Video-sharing website Vimeo has announced a new system called Copyright Match, which is intended to prevent copyright infringement.

Speaking to Billboard, CEO Kerry Trainor said: "Any time someone uploads a video it will be matched against a database, and if it does not come up as copyrighted in some way then the video is on its way, which is the vast majority of cases.

“If there is a potential match against the database, we inform them, and they have ...