WAS BACKLASH AGAINST PARAMOUNT WHY THEY STOPPED THEIR COPYRIGHT NOTICES FOR “ONLY IN MONROE” WITH COLBERT?
It’s been a couple decades, at least, but I remember some not so nice issues with the professional setting when working on a Paramount movie production. But boy, were those the days! Because that was just generalized corporate culture and structure problems, the kind that trickled down from the boardroom not so well into pissing onto the shoulders of workers. And now? Paramount has cozied up as much as possible to an authoritarian America to maximize their present and future oligopoly footprint. I mean, hey, they cancelled the insanely popular Colbert, right? And now they’ve also tried to kill the Stephen Colbert public access television show, “Only In Monroe.” But interestingly, the backlash to their alleged copyright claims has Paramount backing off, fast.
ONE DAY AFTER THE LAST COLBERT LATE SHOW, HE APPEARED ON A PUBLIC ACCESS TV SHOW
So as you may already know, the last of Colbert hosting the Late Show was just a few days ago. But Colbert clearly wants to stay active with work, and wants to have fun doing so. So literally a day after his last aired Late Show, Colbert guest-hosted a local public access tv show in Monroe, Michigan, the afore-mentioned “Only In Monroe.” For whatever reason, Paramount decided to try to cancel Colbert after he stopped working for them. Is this corporate territory bullying? For sure. Is it personal? Probably, and all the more so since corporations are people when it comes to political donations. Or did Paramount take a call from a flipping out Donald Trump? That’s entirely possible.
Related:
Writers Guild of America Has Questions About Stephen Colbert Cancellation
SOMEHOW, PARAMOUNT CLAIMED THEY “FINANCED AND PRODUCED” A PUBLIC ACCESS TV SHOW?
But Paramount did indeed mounted a very real legal effort to stop anyone from seeing Colbert in “Only In Monroe,” and claimed that they “financed and produced” the public access episode! AND, Paramount issued copyright takedown notices to any outlet that was showing the episode. Most of the links to the episode then only showed the message, “this video is private.” Well, people didn’t like that too much, and the backlash against Paramount was quick and large. I guess it doesn’t take a legal aide to know that neither Paramount nor CBS has anything to do with producing public access television. Legally, Paramount literally had no grounds. But that didn’t stop them from bullying local outlets that can’t afford the legal team to say so.
Somewhat surprisingly, Paramount has already backed down. And I kind of doubt negative attention by way of a public backlash made them do that, so fast. I wonder what we don’t know yet….. But anyway, if you haven’t already seen it, this link to retired Colbert is definitely live. For now, anyway!
