If politics makes for strange bedfellows, money makes for even stranger ones. A bunch of big media heavyweights are working together to study the copyright issues surrounding YouTube. According to the Wall Street Journal, News Corp., General Electric’s NBC Universal and Viacom are among the companies looking into the matter. Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is in New York this week meeting with top media execs to reassure them that Google will not turn into a content competitor. (Via Fimoculous)


