CBS Stops Issuing Takedown Requests for Stephen Colbert's Public Access Show, for Now

CBS Backs Off Crackdown on Clips of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ Appearance

Fans saw a sinister motive in the copyright takedown notices sent over a Michigan public-access show.

Paramount backs off attempt to suppress Stephen Colbert's post-Late Show public access party

24 hours after CBS/Paramount pulled the plug on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, Colbert turned up guest-hosting a local public access television show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe," as reported…

CBS stops issuing takedown requests for Stephen Colbert's public access show, for now

On Friday, Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves 23 hours after the end of The Late Show, hosting a delightful, full-length episode of Only In Monroe, a local access show based in Monroe, Michigan. The show was quickly uploaded to YouTube, which Paramount, seemingly totally unconcerned with maintaining any public goodwill, started issuing copyright takedown notices over. Now, after some backlash, the company has confirmed that it will stop do…

CBS Stops Takedown Notices of Colbert's Public Access Show

Without getting too into the weeds here, CBS isn’t anyone’s favorite TV network right now. Especially after their shabby treatment of late-night television icon, Stephen Colbert. Things got even worse when CBS began issuing takedown notices to YouTube users uploading ripped, bootleg copies of Colbert‘s post-Late Show return to hosting an episode of the public access series Only in Monroe, recorded in Monroe, Michigan. But thanks to a report in V…

CBS says Colbert's Only in Monroe episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios but it has decided to stop issuing takedown notices "until additional review" (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: CBS says Colbert's Only in Monroe episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios but it has decided to stop issuing takedown notices “until additional review”  —  And why the network has suspended its effort to police unauthorized versions of the public access show online