Sunday, April 29, 2007

Viacom Admits Error

Viacom recently sent out DMCA notices to users posting copyrighted material on Google's YouTube. One such instance involved a parody of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report", entitled "Stop the Falsiness." This video uses clips from the actual show, but it uses them properly as a commentary about the show.

Last week Viacom dropped the case against the creators of this video, and now the video is back up.

It is good that they dropped the case though they should have never filed a DMCA complaint in the first place.

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