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Romney Ad Killed By Copyright Claim Highlighting the challenges that the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) poses for free speech rights, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been burned by an over-reaching claim of copyright. Romney's campaign ad, which features a short (less than 10 second) clip of President Obama singing a popular song, was yanked due to a copyright claim by the major music publisher BMG. The notice-and-takedown procedure requires YouTube to leave allegedly infringing works offline for at least 10 days, even if the work in question is non-infringing.

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