Guitar Lessons Removed From YouTube in Copyright Dispute
Jul 7th, 2007 by Guitar MX Admin
Guitar instructor David Taub of NextLevelGuitar.com was forced to remove over 100 of his video guitar lessons from YouTube because of accusations of copyright infringement. It all started with a simple lesson on how to play Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. The problem was that David was using these lessons, which taught people how to play portions of known songs, to promote his web site, which offered professional lessons.
So is this the end of video guitar lessons on YouTube? Not exactly. Justin Sandercoe of JustinGuitar.com has not been asked to remove his lessons because his site offers guitar instructions free of charge.
NextLevelGuitar.com has released a written response, as well as this video response.
Click here to read more about this story, and listen to it as reported on NPR.
Damm the RIAA doesnt need any more musician,
more musicians = more p2p downloading
thats not good business.
That guy gives guitars lessons? Talk about the blind leading the blind.
WAAAHAHAHA! To Funny, alfred. Please show us where your free lessons are.
OMG they’re trying to learn for free
The RIAA should quit wasting their money monitoring websites for this sort of thing and get to the heart of the matter: develop biotechnology that will prevent a person’s fingers from forming the chords of any song they have not paid the RIAA for.
Or better yet, an artificial lens that fits over your eyes and prevents you from reading anything you haven’t paid for.
@ Fred
Nah, he’s actually a friend of Dave’s, he helps run the website and record the video, the actual guitar instructor (Dave) isn’t in this video.
I am proud and happy that we still have Rick: http://www.zonow.com/39
Jesus that guy sucks. Forget about his awful singing for a second — that guy can’t even keep a rhythm going. He plays guitar like I played when I was 13. Perhaps the RIAA was just preventing him from mutilating their music?
F*** THE RIAA!!!
Well another example of the RIAA committing suicide by a million cuts. I can hear them saying “lets cut down on the number of future musicians, that’ll help”.
You don’t need to F*** th RIAA, they are doing it to themselves. ROFL.
Nonsense!
that’s really heart-tearing. these people are just trying to help those aspiring musicians who can’t afford to go for a costly lesson. anyways, RIAA is just doing their part.but where’s the conscience there???
if u cant teach people abt songs then u cant go to face-to-face guitar lessons then??? isnt is kinda the same thing: teaching online and teaching face-to-face. man these sticky guys.
I have visited your site 980-times
I have visited your site 441-times
Man this blows big time. We need to get back as these pricks
This is bizarre, I’m helping create a guitar tuition/review site and don’t understand all these laws. I think if you come up with your own arrangement of a song then that’s OK, but I’m not sure.
Lol, that’s ridiculous. Pretty soon the RIAA will start issuing representatives to music stores, to monitor the guitar lessons each guitar teacher gives.
Dude dont give them ideas i bet theyll do it
hi i enjoyed the read
…………NLG sucks big, the instructor IMHO is also a very s**t guitarist……yes the blind leading the blind……the guy cant rip…….I think he needs lessons!
I run a weekly lessons blog that uses videos that I post on YouTube, but I have made a point of not using other peoples music.
No matter how you feel about the RIAA, there are still laws that prohibit the unauthorized use of other artists copywritten material. The music industry is so far behind the curve in terms of keeping up with the changes in technology that at this point they are just trying to make examples in the most high profile way that they know how. I don’t want to be made an example of, and I make my living off of teaching guitar…
I think that the smart thing for any teacher who wants to have online lessons is just to steer away from the potential problems that come from that kind of lesson….
That absolutely stinks…
I don’t see how the industry can be changing the rules of copyright at their convenience. I guess they’re doing all they can to make a buck these days, probably because they’ve gone downhill ever since the invention of the mp3 and practice of illegal downloads.
Isn’t there some law where you are allowed to play a cover of a song in live setting, but just can’t record it. Wouldn’t a “live” lesson be such a thing…
I AM A BEGINNER AND I LEARNED ALOT AND BUILDT CONFIDENCE TO KEEP LEARNING BY WATCHING DAVID.HE MAY NOTBE AN ERIC CLAPTON, BUT HE WAS BRAVE ENOUGH TO GO INTO THE MIX, AND TRY AND HELP THE THOUSANDS OF BEGINNERS WHO JUST NEEDED SOMEONE TO HELP GET THEM GOING .
Oh! S#*T!!! I just accidentally learned something for free today!