Even C-SPAN is pulled into the Colbert debacle

From an AP story:

"After removing the video [of Stephen Colbert's April 29 performance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner], YouTube received a large number of e-mails asking about the missing clip, Supan said. A misconception that C-SPAN is funded by the government led viewers to complain that the Colbert video should be in the public domain, Supan said.

IFILM declined to comment.

C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit company and holds the copyright on the entire correspondents' dinner.

On May 5, two days after YouTube received C-SPAN's letter, the Colbert video was publicly available through an agreement with Google Video."

True - C-SPAN was founded and is funded by cable companies as a public service (and C-SPAN stands for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, not "Congress-Senate" as so many believe).