I’d like to welcome my friend Jonathan Bailey as today’s guest poster. Jonathan is a copyright and plagiarism consultant. He is the CEO of CopyByte, a copyright and plagiarism consulting firm, and writes the copyright blog Plagiarism Today, where he helps content creators license, track and protect their works. Though we all know that the [...]
Great news – Viacom is not going to sue us!
I just got off the phone with Tony Fox, whom you might remember as the gentleman who I wrote the letter to last night. He wanted to convey to the readers of No Fact Zone, and other fan blogs, that his words were misconstrued. According to Fox, the original intent of Fox’s interview with the [...]
Please don’t sue us – An open letter to Tony Fox, PR rep for Viacom
Dear Mr. Fox: My name is DB Ferguson, and I run NoFactZone.net, a blog which many consider to be the best independent Stephen Colbert fan site on the web. We’ve been blogging about Stephen Colbert since July 17, 2006, so close to 4 years. We have an all-volunteer staff of 13 Completists, who blog 7 [...]
My Space to allow user-uploaded Viacom videos
Here’s the current scoop about the MySpace deal with Viacom, courtesy of Forbes: MySpace’s Plan To Turn Video Into Dollars Wendy Tanaka 11.02.08, 9:00 PM ET BURLINGAME, CALIF. -In another move aimed at boosting revenues, MySpace said Monday that it has partnered with Viacom’s MTV Networks and content “fingerprinting” company Auditude to deliver ads to [...]