[Infowarrior] - Sony BMG issues takedown notice to kill Romney ad

[Richard Forno]

Sony BMG issues takedown notice to kill Romney ad

By Rob Beschizza at 5:20 pm Monday, Jul 16

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/16/sony-bmg-issues-takedown-notic.html

A couple of days ago, the Obama campaign released this surprisingly effective attack ad: Mitt's dreadful singing of America The Beautiful played over stock visuals of empty factories. But Romney's counter—an ad ridiculing Obama's singing of Al Green's Let Stay Together at a campaign stop—isn't working out. Why? Because BMG, the song's intellectual proprietor, issued a copyright claim to kill it.

Romney's campaign claims that this is bulls--t, because their deployment of the Obama footage is fair use. You know what? They are damned right about that.

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