YouTube Restores Comedy Central Clips

ColinPL writes, "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." 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."

Re:I wonder....

[garcia]

if this has anything to do with Steven Colbert's veiled attack against Viacom on his show last night?

"veiled attacks" on The Report mean great things for everyone who's being attacked. If anything, the major media outlets are beginning to realize that Internet content distribution is nothing but great for all parties involved.

I'm sure it has something to do w/the money that they see with Google floating in the background but that's for another story...

Any publicity is good publicity

[kabz]

What next? Microsoft releases hax0r4d Vista to Pirate Bay?

It looks to me like Comedy Central subscribe to the axiom 'any usage is good usage'. ;-)