Excellent writeup of the Viacom issues on VoodooVentures.com

So someone over at Voodoo Ventures has plugged this post in multiple comments in my blog, which normally I frown upon (especially when there’s no links to NFZ in there) except this post is really, really good. It’s got links and a really nifty chart and whatnot. So if you want to see a really great break down of the information spewed by Colbert on Monday night’s episode, check out this post in its entirety over at VoodooVentures.com.

Stephen Colbert Groks the Viacom v. Google Suit
March 28, 2007 3:22 pm
written by Chris Schultz

To understand what’s at the crux of the $1 billion Viacom suit against Google for copyright infringement, look no further than the guy who has become the flash point for the suit, Stephen Colbert. Colbert spent Monday’s episode giving a platform to the debate of copyright law and fair use that is embodied by the current collision of old media content owners versus new media technologies that enable the mashing up of that content. The Colbert Report has been at the crux of the Viacom-YouTube/Google suit since Viacom first sued and highlighted the fact that copyrighted episodes of the The Colbert Report were freely available on YouTube. The Electronic Freedom Foundation then sued Viacom over YouTube’s takedown of a Colbert parody produced by MoveOn.org and Brave New Films.

On Monday’s episode, Colbert mapped out the players with skin in the game with his guest, John Perry Barlow of the EFF. Here’s an extrapolation of what he whiteboarded for the audience:

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Confidential to Barbara: I checked the size to make sure it looked ok on 800×600 resolution – does this work Ok on your monitor?