Google Pulling In John Stewart and Steven Colbert For YouTube Trial

Google has pulled a brilliant swerve, requesting to depose late night comedians John Stewart and Steven Colbert in their court case against Viacom. Viacom is suing Google over YouTube, trying to shut down the popular site that is stealing so many of their viewers.
Viacom’s claim centers on the idea that YouTube is filled with copyrighted content, that content is uploaded without permission, and that the presence of that content hurts media companies like Viacom. Stewart and Colbert, in their fake news programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, often do stories criticizing their parent company’s anti-YouTube stance, use YouTube to generate and report on viral videos, and owe some of their rising popularity to sharing of popular clips.
Google is hoping to put Stewart on the stand and force him, under oath, to repeat some of the things he’s already said on his national cable TV show. […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg