CBS halts crackdown on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ public-access show uploads after backlash
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CBS halts crackdown on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ public-access show uploads after backlash See more of our coverage in your search results.
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Add The New York Post on GoogleCBS yanked copyright takedown notices targeting uploads of Stephen Colbert’s surprise return to a tiny Michigan public-access TV show in the wake of online backlash.
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The Paramount-owned network had been issuing the notices against YouTube users who reposted Colbert’s appearance on “Only in Monroe,” the Monroe Community Media public-access program that the comic famously hosted once in 2015 before taking over CBS’ “Late…
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