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October 30, 2006 @ 12:38 pm
YouTube Purging Copyrighted Clips
right Last week, the site 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," reports The New York Times.
The action was “a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central,” according to one such e-mail message sent to 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.
“We get an opportunity to produce this stuff because they make enough money selling beer that it’s worth their while to do it," explained Mr. Stewart during a Sept. 2005 interview with Wired Magazine. "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.”
Article tags: Jon Stewart, YouTube
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