Comedy Central clips aren’t leaving YouTube for good. Viacom, Comedy Central’s corporate parent, has confirmed that it wants to find some way to keep the clips available, and has apparently given the green light for YouTube to put the material back up. No deal between the two firms has yet been done, but it sounds like one is imminent.
Last week, the company asked YouTube to pull many copyrighted clips of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and other Comedy Central properties, and many of them were taken down. Numerous short clips did remain available on the site, fueling speculation that Viacom was only concerned about longer clips.
YouTube fans responded immediately… using YouTube. One man posted a two-minute clip called “Why did Comedy Central assert copyrights now?” in which he wondered why Comedy Central had waited so long to act, and why they had chosen to do so now.
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