Another Romney campaign gaffe.
Mitt’s team trying to bail themselves out from the devastating Firms ad put together a response that featured Obama signing Al Green’s “Let Stay Together.” How unoriginal.
But Romney managed to still to screw it up. BMG (the other one, the record company) owns the rights to the song and and issued a copyright claim.
Image of Mitt’s website via Gawker:
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5 Comments . Leave a comment below.Intellectual property theft, plagiarism, mis-quoting — none of it has ever bothered the Mitt Romney or Scott Brown team. It demonstrates, yet again, that integrity — personal integrity, corporate integrity, intellectual integrity — fails to make the list values that matter to them.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan — there they go again.
I respectfully dissent on this one. It seems to me that the little clip in the ad of Obama singing was clearly “fair use” of the copyrighted material, and that YouTube should not have pulled the ad.
if you saw the Romney ad (which I did), you might think that BMG Rights Management did the Romney campaign a favor, since it was an incredibly lame riposte to Obama’s ad.
but in my sense, repeating the same ad in response doesn’t work. It’s I’m rubber, you’re glue response. Not what voters would think is unique and would standout for the right reasons any.
Republican operatives don’t do defense well.
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