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Google wants to depose Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert

By Owen Thomas, 5:27 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007, 870 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Well, this should be good for a laugh: In its pending copyright spat with Viacom, Google has listed comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as some of the Viacom employees it wants to depose, Silicon Alley Insider reports. No doubt it wants the fake newsmen to fess up to how much of their popularity they owe to free distribution on Google's YouTube. Read the entire legal filing here (PDF).

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