Comedy Central back on YouTube, Viacom caves.

[Hamlette]

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/11/02/1639213.shtml

seems the link isn't working all the time, here's the clip:

"Though YouTube has removed Comedy Central clips, their corporate parent Viacom has confirmed that it wants to find some way to keep the clips available. Viacom has apparently given the green light for YouTube to put the material back up."

[xultar]

1. phuckers shot themselves in the puckin phoot.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Thank goodness

Comedy Central should simply strike an ad revenue deal with YouTube.
Done.

[bobbie]

7. Yeah! That's what I was trying to say.

YouTube without the Daily Show and Colbert isn't YouTube.

[951-Riverside]

3. Didnt Google/YouTube have to pay Viacom for the rights to host the videos?

[boolean]

4. It's FREE ADVERTISING

Honestly, when will corporations learn? The Internet it a GOOD thing.

[Kolesar]

9. It competes with the videos CC put up on "The Motherload"

Which I think is a well-done webpage. They have huge amounts of material from the Colbert Report.

[A Simple Game]

13. "The Motherload" sucks.

YouTube videos load 5 times faster.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. And therefore saves them bandwidth. -nt

[chat_noir]

5. CBS has its own You Tube channel

[bobbie]

6. Oh I hope that's true! Some of the most important clips on YouTube

Are Stewart and Colbert. Now most of them I try to watch are scrubbed. Steward and Colbert are important enough to make a special arrangement; figure out how to make it work corporate types.

I know it's comedy central's decision but I'd be amazed if the S&C were against having their clips on YouTube. In fact Colbert actively promotes a web tie-in with his show.

Thanks for this info Hamlette. YouTube has been a wasteland recently.

[LilyLibber]

8. Excellent!

:woohoo:

It was bummin' me out to not have access to so much Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert!

[Ediacara]

10. This whole thing was absurd

Putting an entire show on the Youtube is a violation of copyright, putting clips up is not a violation of copyright. It's as much a part of fair use as quoting a passage from a book in another book is fair use.

[NYCGirl]

11. Here's a full article I posted about it a couple of days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2527901


http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003317744

After Viacom sent YouTube a letter last week asking the video-sharing site to remove some of its copyrighted content, the two companies appear to have reached an understanding.

The letter requested that YouTube remove some Viacom proprietary content that had been posted by users, including episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

—snipped—


As of Tuesday, a variety of short clips from the Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Laguna Beach and SpongeBob SquarePants could all be accessed on the site.

"Like our peers in the media industry, we are focused on finding the right business model for professionally created content to be legally distributed on the Internet," the Viacom rep said. "We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we're interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences."

[rocktivity]

12. That explains last night's Daily Show commercial

about how you could now watch all TDS clips on their web site. Depending on what rights Jon Stewart has, doing that might have left Viacom out in the cold. I'll bet he was behind it! Anyway, CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[flowomo]

15. Not that clear yet.... from the same link, this update:

Update: 11/02 20:49 GMT by Z : We received an email from DB Ferguson at the No Fact zone, letting us know things are a little more muddled than we might otherwise prefer. "This letter contains a link to Jeff's Idealog post where he had evidence that even more clips are disappearing, and I have copies of two Cease and Desist letters that were sent yesterday night from YouTube. The purge continues, despite the news reports that it has stopped or that videos are being put back in."