Alexander Cornswalled ([info]cornswalled) wrote,
@ 2007-03-23 11:49:00
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Colbert gets parody videos pulled
In a clear case of not being able to take what he dishes out, Liberal Talking Head Stephen Colbert has had a video pulled from Youtube for parodying him.

Of course, there is now a pending lawsuit over Colbert's thin skin, and the fact that he used the DMCA illegally to get the video pulled.

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[info]defenestrate_me
2007-03-23 07:16 pm UTC (link)
It looks to me like it's not Colbert himself that's doing this, but Viacom. Modern companies like this have departments that look for any chance of copyright infringement they can pounce on, whether the people in the media that they own want them to or not.

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[info]cornswalled
2007-03-25 05:31 pm UTC (link)
If he were so thick skinned and loved being parodied, then he would have spoken out in favor of the parody artists wouldn't he?

His silence convicts him.

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[info]defenestrate_me
2007-04-02 03:56 pm UTC (link)
I doubt that Colbert could actually do anything, sadly. All the rights to his show belong to Viacom. Everything he does goes to benefit Viacom, who pay him a wage so that he'll keep making them intellectual property to profit from.

It's sad, but even in this Web 2.0 world, that's still the only way to get big and stay big.

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Viacom gets parody videos pulled
(Anonymous)
2007-03-23 11:35 pm UTC (link)
As has already been pointed out, Stephen Colbert had nothing to do with the parody video being pulled. It was done by Comedy Central's parent company, Viacom. Colbert is, by all accounts, very thick skinned.

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