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This is good:

The Obama campaign recently released a TV commercial that features Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful." This is a song that's in the public domain, so it's no problem. The Romney campaign, hoping to do a little musical mockery of its own, responded with a commercial that features Obama singing Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." Boom! This is decidedly not in the public domain, and BMG immediately sent a DMCA takedown order to YouTube. Within hours, the commercial was gone.

Hello, Republicans! Now maybe you'll pay attention to the issue of copyright protection in this country!

Read on from Kevin Drum's blog...

It's common knowledge that the best way to get Congress to act is to do something that personally annoys a congressman. So maybe this is that thing. Now that modern copyright law is hitting them where it hurts, perhaps the Republican caucus in the House will be outraged enough to introduce a bill that defines fair use more reasonably and eliminates the more draconian abuses of DMCA.

Wishful thinking?

Here's the Obama ad slamming Romney:

And here's the Romney ad slamming Obama:

Ooops...you can't see it because of copyright law. But here's Talking Points Memo talking about it.

What does Al Green think of all this, by the way?

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