? The grounds for the revocation of the song nomination are nonsense. Everybody publicizes their product, usually to the tune of millions of dollars' worth of publicity. This guy sent an e-mail to 70 people in his own personal email address book saying nothing more than "give it a listen," and he's hit with a ton of bricks and pounded out of the competition.
I'd hope the Academy would be shamed enough to reverse their stance.
I am sensing this was based on a ticky-tacky issue or something like that.