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- The Real Fight Over Fake News
  Posted by Jeff from Bits.blogs.nytimes
  Full episodes of three Comedy Central shows - "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report" and "South Park" - will start being Webcast, both on MTV-owned sites and on the Fancast site from Comcast. (Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom's MTV Networks unit, has been Webcasting "South Park" episodes for a few months.)
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- Lewis Black To Preside Over The Root of All Evil
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  The cable network has ordered a pilot for the project, which will be hosted by Grammy-winning comedian and DAILY SHOW contributor Lewis Black. Black will play a judge presiding over cases pitting political figures, celebrities and pop culture concepts accused of being "the root of all evil."
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- Nation & World | Viacom sues YouTube for copyright infringement | Seattle Times Newspaper
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Conflict first reported here by NewsCloud - expands to courts: MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., today, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.
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- Viacom demands YouTube remove videos
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  Viacom Inc. on Friday demanded that Google Inc.'s online video service YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips after they failed to reach a distribution agreement.
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- iFilm legally showing Comedy Central clips
  Posted by Jeff from Variety
  Via Waxy.org: welcome to the new networks; Daily Show and Colbert Report updated nightly
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- YouTube, Comedy Central Tussle More About Ad Inventory Than Copyright
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  While the battle currently centers on Comedy Central clips, the war is reportedly more about pre-roll ads than copyright concerns. ... Unlike Comedy Central's broadband offering Motherload (or similar offerings from Viacom-owned MTV and VH1), clips on YouTube don't include pre-roll ads, which is vexing to Viacom. It sees a large potential sales opportunity going to waste, and is using the DMCA requests as leverage in an attempt to get YouTube to allow both pre-roll ads on their content.
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- NewsCloud Publishes Reporting on YouTube's Comedy Central Takedowns
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  Tonight, NewsCloud publicly released its reporting engine on YouTube's ongoing takedowns of Comedy Central material with its Summary Reports and Video Search. Our video search can only be used to find clips by keyword to determine whether the videos are still available or not. While Viacom has released public statements saying that they were targeting YouTube with requests to take down whole episodes, I found the takedowns to be fairly indiscriminate. For example, 63% of Daily Show clips (and 58% of all shows) taken down were less than 5 minutes in length. We also wanted to get a sense of the number of page views just our subset of video clips had generated for YouTube over time - this also represents potential lost revenue for Viacom. Just the subset of broken clips with view count information left in the Google cache represents 14,867,004 viewings. While the live videos at YouTube represent 23,322,598 viewings. Or, 38,189,602 combined.
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aaronbarlow72 comments on:
YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

Ironic considering Matt Sone and Trey Parker are such civil Libertarians. Then again they had no control over whether CC showed the image of mohammed on Cartoon wars.
This is what happens when greedy corporate paper pushers have control over creatives.

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6:14 am 5/08/08
sgtwildey comments on:
YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

Comedy Central. There’s a laugh. NLOL. Here’s a group that says ‘Ok’ to endless showings of the exact same movies (Orange County, Blue Collar Tour, Office Space, Saving Silverman, etc.) then has the audacity to pull a stunt like this youtube business. You should have enough material to steal first, then shoot the ‘sue you’ gun. In my eyes this is like the BBC trying to sue Bill Gates for using too much electricity.

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2:33 pm 1/28/08
rwtaylor comments on:
Truthiness is scarce at Viacom and YouTube this week

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5:25 pm 9/30/07
rwtaylor comments on:
YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

yup

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5:23 pm 9/30/07
rwtaylor comments on:
YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

Viacom may not miss YouTube as much as some people think.

The company recently began offering so-called embed code that allows fans of popular programs such as the South Park to post clips to their MySpace.com pages or blogs. That embed code duplicates one of the more popular features of YouTube: the ability to easily post videos on other Web sites and blogs.

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6:50 pm 3/12/07
Jeff comments on:
Viacom demands YouTube remove videos

NewsCloud first reported this back in October 2006

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10:29 am 2/02/07
Damianmann comments on:
YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips

It’s a mistake to buy up websites these days. Myspace is losing users and amount of time spent on the site by users.So, these things run in rather short cycles. Kids move on to something else.

If Democracy player gets it together, they could take over as the way to see video on the web. Who knows?

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2:08 pm 10/30/06