Licensing Issues Bedevil the McCain Campaign

Following up our previous post, Getty Tries to Figure Out Music....

John McCain's campaign is also having issues with music licensing. Its video ads keep getting pulled because of complaints of unauthorized music and footage usage. Wired.com's Threat Level blog has details:

"The McCain campaign's web video ads have been repeatedly either knocked off YouTube or have had to be revamped for using excerpts of television debate footage, and pop songs as soundtracks, without negotiating for the rights first.

"One of its highest profile hits on the web, 'Obama Love,' for example, faced an embarrassing revamp in July when YouTube received a DMCA take-down notice from The Warner Music Group. The campaign had used Franki Valli's hit tune 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You' as the video's sarcastic soundtrack."

Hey Getty, this sounds like a potential sales lead.