YouTube got another smackdown from a surprising source: C-SPAN. The non-profit cable network, which is generally a good egg about the redistribution of its content, asked YouTube and iFilm to pull from their listings the controversial video of Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner.
C-SPAN asked the online video outlets to remove the Colbert video because it is copyrighted and they have a pact with Google Video. Google Video has agreed to show the entire dinner video, not just the Colbert bit, and Google has agreed to link back to C-SPAN’s site. According to YouTube, Colbert’s “roast” of President Bush, which some observers (including the President himself) thought was sneakily mean, was viewed 2.7 million times within 48 hours of its posting.
The video is now available at GoogleVideo.
Cynthia Brumfield at 9:04 AM|Comments(0)
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