The news that Google owned YouTube took down the ubiquitous Daily Show clips and other material from Comedy Central got a lot of play over the weekend. But, as TechTraderDaily noticed, it’s not at all clear that the purge is actually working. There are hundreds of Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips still available on the site. So what’s going on?
One possibility, raised in this video, is that Googtube is only deleting videos that last longer than five minutes. Is there some maximum time for stolen videos? Comedy Central owner Viacom did not return our request for comment.
Posted by Lars Toomre, Oct 30, 2006 12:37PM
Is there perhaps some "fair use" provision that applies for videos like that which exists for replication of magazine quotes? I am not a lawyer, but one would think that some small segment of a longer copyrighted material could be cited as part of a larger independent content item. Thoughts?