divorce, media-style

Regarding Viacom’s pending lawsuit against Google and YouTube, Jeff Jarvis writes the quote of the day:

I guess when Viacom and CBS split up, CBS got the IQ.

Here’s what he means:

At last week’s Online Publishers Association, Betsy Morgan of CBSNews.com, said that when an infringing clip goes up on YouTube, they take it down and then replace it with a noninfringing, official copy, which has the added benefit of enabling the conversation to cluster around one rather than many copies of the same event. That’s smart.

Yep.