YouTube Pulling Comedy Central Clips? Not Necessarily

This morning’s New York Times reported that YouTube is “purging” copyrighted clips — from some of YouTube stalwarts like the Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park — in preparation for the finalizing of its $1.65 billion sale to Google.

The Times, however, was relying on “‘third-party notification by Comedy Central’ according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud.” YouTube did not respond to the Times.

FishbowlNY spent about 25 minutes on YouTube this afternoon, and the news of an all-out purge seems to have been a bit premature.