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STUPID MUSIC INDUSTRY TRICKS: NOW THEY DON'T WANT ANY GUITAR PLAYERS
FRANK LANGFITT Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource
last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than
100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him
of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a
Rolling Stones song. . .
In the past few months, two teachers have posted around 200 videos that
demonstrate everything from basic strumming techniques to the opening
riff of "Sweet Home Alabama." So far, people around the world have
watched the videos a total of more than 3.5 million times.
One of the teachers is David Taub, who lives in San Diego and often
appears wearing a flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap. . . The
other teacher is Justin Sandercoe, who lives in London, where he teaches
guitar and plays with a famous pop singer. . .
The teachers play slowly and use close-ups, showing each finger
movement. If you don't get it at first, you can hit replay. It's like
having a teacher with endless patience.
The lessons are informal and feel home-made. Sandercoe sometimes appears
sitting on his floor, with his hair matted at different angles. Taub's
lessons are mostly unedited and include moments like his golden
retriever eating his guitar pick. . .
But if learning pop songs for free online sounds too good to be true, it
may be.
John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society at Harvard Law School, says most of the songs Sandercoe and Taub
teach are under copyright. . . "There's a very strong argument that the
re-use of well-known chords in the sequence the instructor played them
would be a violation of the copyright," Palfrey says.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11778602
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STUPID MUSIC INDUSTRY TRICKS: NOW THEY DON'T WANT ANY GUITAR PLAYERS
FRANK LANGFITT Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource
last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than
100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him
of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a
Rolling Stones song. . .
In the past few months, two teachers have posted around 200 videos that
demonstrate everything from basic strumming techniques to the opening
riff of "Sweet Home Alabama." So far, people around the world have
watched the videos a total of more than 3.5 million times.
One of the teachers is David Taub, who lives in San Diego and often
appears wearing a flannel shirt and a backwards baseball cap. . . The
other teacher is Justin Sandercoe, who lives in London, where he teaches
guitar and plays with a famous pop singer. . .
The teachers play slowly and use close-ups, showing each finger
movement. If you don't get it at first, you can hit replay. It's like
having a teacher with endless patience.
The lessons are informal and feel home-made. Sandercoe sometimes appears
sitting on his floor, with his hair matted at different angles. Taub's
lessons are mostly unedited and include moments like his golden
retriever eating his guitar pick. . .
But if learning pop songs for free online sounds too good to be true, it
may be.
John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society at Harvard Law School, says most of the songs Sandercoe and Taub
teach are under copyright. . . "There's a very strong argument that the
re-use of well-known chords in the sequence the instructor played them
would be a violation of the copyright," Palfrey says.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11778602
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