Colbert Takes On Ridiculous Restrictions Over Talking About The Olympics
from the I'd-sue-you dept
On last night's
Colbert Report, Stephen brought on his brother, Ed Colbert, an international copyright lawyer to
discuss the totally ridiculous restrictions on what he can and cannot say concerning his Olympics coverage, to avoid getting sued by either NBC or the Olympics, leading Colbert to dub his reports the "Vancouverage of the quadrennial cold weather competition" to avoid saying things like Vancouver, Olympics or even winter games, as those are all on the
forbidden list. Watch here (probably US only, tragically):
Separately, if you watch the following segment on TV or online, I noticed that Comedy Central had to
change the online coverage as compared to what was shown on TV last night. Last night, there were video clips from NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies. I don't know if this was licensed or if Viacom/Comedy Central realized that those clips were fair use. But if you watch the online version, everywhere that Colbert showed a clip on the live version, there was, instead, a still photo -- such as when he discusses the dancers from the opening ceremony and the lighting of the torch. I'm guessing that there's some sort of licensing issue that explains why the online version of Colbert left those clips out, even though that seems ridiculous. Separately, if you look carefully in that same clip, you might catch a glimpse of occasional Techdirt contributor Blaise Alleyne who is seen laughing in the audience at one of Colbert's jokes...
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Clip OK Here in NZ
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Short clips are not US only
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Colbert would be an awesome pirate. He could dress up in an American flag themed pirate outfit. He could figuratively cut open a RIAA exec too. And his show is a news show, there's no syndication for that right?
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Actually, I can confirm that it doesn't work in the UK. I was using my VPN when I first went to write up this post, and was logged into a UK server, and couldn't see the video until I logged out.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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Gay Olympics vs Special Olympics
If I ever find out my home city is in the running to host the games, it will be my mission to derail it.
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Seven dirty words
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Mike, where you using that UK VPN to watch Olympics? Naughty, naughty boy! :)
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FX doesn't allow streaming of its shows either, whereas More4/Channel 4 does.
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IN CANADA COMEDY CENTRAL VIDEOS....
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So I ended up finding an unauthorized source for the whole episode (which took all of ten seconds). It's funny that somehow I'm supposed to feel guilty about that.
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Canadian Mirror
or
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/videolist.aspx?sid=3351
or
thepiratebay.org
sigh.......
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Only the UK blocked?
Is anyone reading this outside the UK blocked?
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What, you use a VPN? What are you hiding? You must be one of them "pirates" I keep hearin so much about.
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Firefox Addon: 'Modify Headers'
Action: Add
Name: X-Forwarded-For
Value: 12.13.14.15
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