Chris Knight wins battle over YouTube clip

Vindu Goel at the San Jose Mercury News: Chris Knight wins battle with Viacom over YouTube clip.

Chris Knight of North Carolina reports that he won his copyright battle with media giant Viacom.

As I wrote a week ago, Viacom had demanded that YouTube take down a TV clip posted by Knight that featured a VH1 host making fun of Knight’s own campaign ad for county school board.

With the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knight challenged the takedown notice he received from YouTube, and Viacom apparently backed down: YouTube, a unit of Google, informed Knight this evening that it had restored the video to YouTube.

You can watch the disputed YouTube clip here.