Colbert's parting gift forces CBS to give money to his favorite charity (opens in new tab)

In his final episode, "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert gave a parting gift as his own way of flipping the network the bird. Now CBS is on the hook and the cash will go to Colbert's favorite charity. In the final edition of his popular segment "Meanwhile," Colbert mentioned recent copyright enforcement for Lee Mendelson Film Productions, which owns the song from the cartoons of Peanuts by creator Charles Schulz. They have recently gone on a kind of legal blitz over the usage of their conte...