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Clips like Jon Stewart, right, of Comedy Central, with Howard Stern are being purged from YouTube in preparation for Google’s purchase of the video-sharing Web site.
By NOAM COHEN
Published: October 30, 2006
Hitting the financial jackpot, it appears, may have created some headaches for YouTube, the wildly popular video-sharing Web site that has agreed to be bought by Google for $1.65 billion in stock.
The site late last week began purging copyrighted material from Comedy Central, including clips from YouTube stalwarts like “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and “South Park.”
The action was “a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central,” according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud.
A week earlier, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers cited copyright infringement.
YouTube did not respond to repeated messages left over the weekend.
The situation is tricky for a network like Comedy Central, part of Viacom. Its audience is young and technologically sophisticated, and Comedy Central stars in the past have used YouTube and clip services to interact with their audience.
Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report,” for example, gained great attention for his mocking speech before President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, which became one of the most-viewed clips at YouTube before C-Span, which broadcast the event, ordered it taken down.
In an interview with Wired magazine in September 2005, Mr. Stewart explained his view: “We get an opportunity to produce this stuff because they make enough money selling beer that it’s worth their while to do it. I mean, we know that’s the game. I’m not suggesting we’re going to beam it out to the heavens, man, and whoever gets it, great. If they’re not making their money, we ain’t doing our show.”
We all knew it would happen...
Posted by: honor12900
that will ruin youtube.com
Posted by: SOT
The only good thing about YouTube was that you could see stuff you often couldn't see someplace else without paying a subscription OR you could see it modified in such a way that it was "better".
Posted by: SOT
Hey they took our advice
Last weekend we pointed out that Comedy Central/Viacom lawyers had begun demanding that YouTube pull clips from their series "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report". Obviously this led to many individuals stating the obvious: the huge success of these shows is thanks in part to the viral reach of YouTube, and it's a dumb idea for Viacom to shoot itself in the foot. Apparently there's nothing to worry about, as Ad Week reports that YouTube & Viacom are hashing out some kind of revenue sharing deal that keeps the clips on YouTube.
Posted by: CJIS
UPDATE:
Viacom and YouTube have reached a deal, according to Adweek Nightly News. We do apologize for any misleading information. We intended to point out only that Viacom has allowed the re-posting of Comedy Central content on YouTube. After Viacom asked the popular video-sharing site YouTube to remove much of their popular content, including clips of The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and Sponge Bob Square Pants. YouTube swiftly replied by taking down all of the clips pertaining to Viacom’s request. But now the companies may have reached a mutually beneficial agreement that will grant YouTube the license to play the Comedy Central, etc. content again.
The potential compliance exhibited by YouTube is characteristic of the company that’s eager to make deals with media companies, as opposed to being caught in a law suit for copyright infringement. Viacom’s cooperation in allowing the content to be played on YouTube could show the media company’s eagerness to capture audiences where they are (online) and to still profit from the viewing of their video content.
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