New web show features best Digg videos
Cory Bergman January 17th, 2008
Revision3 continues to expand its slate of original web shows, and today it debuted “The Digg Reel,” a show featuring the most popular videos on Digg, as well as some of the funnier comments from the Digg community.
And surprise surprise, one of the clips in the first show comes from The Daily Show. “That makes us wonder why Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson would so willingly court legal trouble for themselves,” blogs David Utter in WebProNews. “Viacom’s lawyers are sure to notice the ad placements during The Digg Reel. They already want a billion dollars from Google. Digg doesn’t really need that kind of grief, do they?”
7 Comments Add your own
1. Vinny | January 17th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Not such a shock.
They can slap a bunch of crap they didn’t produce onto a lightly produced bunch of ‘tween clips, throw some sponsorship info in and call it a day.
Sounds like a win win if you’re them.
Are they risking legal trouble? Probably, but something tells me they aren’t losing any sleep over it.
2. Gorman | January 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
“…And you thought it was going to be people getting hurt on skateboards…”
Duh. Why show that when you can show clips of the Daily Show, Transformers and music videos?
3. discreet_chaos | January 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
How long is that clip? I lost interest before she had finished explaining the concept, then I figured that if the clips had been dugg, I probably should just go to the site and pick only those of interest.
4. Anonymous | January 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Why can CNN show clips of the Daily Show, or my local morning news show clips from all the late night shows, while an online program can’t do the same?
5. Anonymous | January 18th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Seems like fair use to me. As long as the Daily show clips are in a clip show format, its no different than The Soup or Best Week Ever
6. Davis Freeberg | January 18th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
If it was only clips I could understand why people are objecting, but the commentary adds a lot of value to the original work. We may end up seeing someone sue, but if your video gets dugg, you’re normally pretty thrilled about it because it means that more people would have seen it. If someone does sue, I could see a strong argument to how this would be fair use.
7. legal highs | February 27th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I will use it
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