CBS has officially left the building.

We are helpless, but canceling Paramount Plus made me feel better. Canceling Disney Plus brought Jimmy Kimmel back. Hit them in their pocketbook.

own the copyrights to the show. Ellison is totally out of his league.

Sending the DMCA notices was extremely tone-deaf on the part of CBS, but it wasn't "frivolous" from a legal standpoint. As CBS noted -- with no pushback from Monroe County or Colbert -- “Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe in the ‘Only in Monroe’ episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was posted on Stephen Colbert’s YouTube channel in collaboration with Monroe Community Media and ‘The Late Show’s’ YouTube channels.”

owns the trademark of The Late Show, under which Colbert was operating

CBS just had a contract with WWP to produced shows for X amount of money.

They don't own him any more, the fools.

even if there was such a clause, I don't see it applying in this case. If he had a choice he'd still be working for them.

Now I will never forget!
CLICK!

It's all about the network boss (Tony Goldwyn) cancelling Deborah Vance's (Jean Smart) late-night talk-show because she refused his orders and said so on the show. Because he is personally embarrassed, he imposes an 18-month performance gag on her, trying to end her career, but she turns the tables on him. The parallels to CBS's treatment of Colbert are eerie. Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle figured out that such hubris leads to one's downfall. Too bad the failed actor and nepo-bully Ellison never learned that lesson.

are intent on owning us and the world, wholly and completely. They're tired of trying to make us "see" the errors of our ways, and fall in line with their "enlightened philosophy." So, they're just doing what they want to do because no one can stop them. Kinda like trump.

Apologies for those who see the following as religious in nature... but unless "good" can come up with a viable way to vanquish "evil" this is our life from now on, IMO. To note: I don't see good and evil as religious entities or aspects. I see them as elements of the world we live in. Where one thing can be both, or neither. Technology is an excellent example. Wonderful benefits to humanity when used correctly and research is done in earnest with honesty and transparency paramount. But most usually, the beneficial aspects are thrown out the door because the harm it can do in its use is way too profitable to ignore for these people. Their only philosophy boils down to Me - good and necessary. You - unwashed and unnecessary. You will, therefore, die for the betterment of the world.

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It's not so much good vs. evil as innocence vs. corruption and instead of being inspired by religion it's based on the hero cycle of myth and literature. I see the bad guys as suffering from arrested development, as being unable to navigate the world safely without building walls around themselves and forcing people to do their bidding. Stuart Smalley, the Al Franken character, often advised, "Better to put on a pair of slippers than to carpet the world." People like Ellison insist on carpeting the world, and charging you for walking on the carpet. He's a classic example of someone who hasn't faced the challenges most of us have because he grew up wealthy and cossetted.

There are a couple of posts in my journal that go into more detail on this, if you are interested:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/~nuxvomica

so funny.

yet just another brilliant move by Colbert.
It's a charming episode too. I'm hooked.

They didn't want him.

Are they saying that it was the 11-year-old show that was replayed on Friday night? Or was it an all-new show where Stephen Colbert came in person to do the show?

It seems to be a replay of the old show ... but they never actually say that in the news story.

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Colbert went back to Monroe and filmed it right after his CBS show ended.

Every accusation from Republicrooks is a confession.

This is essentially a SLAP suit action.

He was Colbert’s guest star and he was on about half of the show. They were a riot together.

Colbert along with Obama, AOC, and the Clintons live in Trump’s head and it is killing him.

I want some only in Monroe merch. That was brilliant.

To claim copyright on something not owned in an attempt to suppress a viral public access media item is criminal. It amounts to fraud to file these notices, especially if it forced third parties to remove the legal content.

I wish I could call the local station and tell them that I will no longer watch Colbert or any of their programing, but since they moved their transmitting tower years ago, we have not been able to watch CBS since there is a line of hills blocking their signal plus we don't have cable because it's too damn expensive.

We do watch Colbert on YouTube though