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Creators vs. lawyers

Here's a fun rumor. I heard that the staff of the Daily Show and Colbert Report upload the shows to YouTube as soon as they can after the shows air and then the next day, lawyers from Comedy Central hit YouTube with takedown requests for the uploaded shows. Which makes total sense...sort of. The people making the shows want them to be seen while the lawyers want to ensure that people are paying to see them. It's a crazy media world we live in.

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This entry is part of the kottke.org weblog, of which An entire year is the latest entry.

Within this weblog, this entry belongs in the Teevee categories and was published in January 2007.

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