On Sunday, Viacom demanded that all Comedy Central content be pulled from YouTube. By Wednesday, the two companies reached an agreement and Viacom reversed their decision.
Ironically, on Wednesday I received a threatening email from YouTube telling me I had infringed Comedy Central’s copyright. And as a result they have disabled access to an uploaded video.
Problem is I didn’t upload a video from Comedy Central. I uploaded a video I produced on ZDTV, a former cable network about technology and the Internet. It was though a news segment about The Daily Show’s online coverage of the Presidential election.
Therefore, Comedy Central has no rights to the content whatsoever.
But it appears they pulled my segment because I used the words “The Daily Show” in my description. I have responded to YouTube hoping they’ll see this as an honest mistake.
With a staff of 65, who knows when YouTube will get around if ever to reading my email.
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