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After a nastygram from Viacom (Comedy Centrals parent company) YouTube not so quietly removed any and all video that had any content from that network.

After a few YouTubers got a little roudy, it is now confirmed that Comedy Central wants to find some way to keep the clips available, and has apparently given the green light for YouTube to put the material back up.

Viacom told multiple media outlets yesterday in a statement that it was interested in finding a workable business model for making clips available on the Internet, so one can only assume that some sort of revenue-sharing deal is in the works like those that YouTube signed with several music labels. Last week’s takedown notices may have represented legitimate concern about giving away too much content at once, or they might have been a bargaining device designed to show YouTube exactly how upset its users would be if all Comedy Central content was pulled.

For now, at least, the clips are back—even the long ones, so get your Colbert fix on before Viacom has another change of heart.

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