Sony BMG issues takedown notice for Romney ad

A couple of days ago, the Obama campaign released this effective 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. Romney's campaign claims that this is unfair, because their deployment of the Obama footage is fair use. You know what? Tough Titties.