This makes me a little upset to read that they are looking for an easy way of the changing world of the music industry. They spend so much time and effort in trying to track down such stupid stuff like this. Why don’t they spend that time and money in to marketing or finding a better way to bring in income. He they could work with these guys to help market the album or song.

I love what RadioHead did with there last record. Its so nice to see the money go to the artist and not some dick in a suit that was just there with a contract.

I do know that Youtube are having major problems with copyright so I suppose they’re being extra cautious.

I actually didn’t know about Marcos Farhat’s videos before your comment. He has some really good ones.

I would guess that he is just as susceptible as anyone else. He advertises his site http://www.freeguitarvideolessons.com on his videos and on that site he accepts payment to send you his videos. Since his site is a little… actually a lot less commercial than Next Level I’d say he is less of a target, but still, if he gets in the wrong labels sites it could be the end of his videos on YouTube.

In the meantime I have subscribed to his channel because he has got some pretty great vids. Too bad he has disabled embedding because I would probably post a bunch of them here.

I think that when someone scans a guitar magazine or tab book and uploads that to the internet, yeah, that should be against copyright law. Even if someone reads the tab and transcribes it to text, thats still not good. But when someone listens to the song and writes out their own interpretation of how it should be played, I don’t think anybody should be able to touch that. The same goes for videos and audio files. If you record yourself teaching someone how to play a song, that should be fine.

What I see is the record labels are seeing that this is another area where they can profit from the music they stole from the artists. So what they are doing is using copyright law to crush the competition. Either that or they figure “well if we aren’t making money from it that way, then you wont either”. Also, if it is only going to cost them a few hundred in legal fees to have your lawyer send a take down notice, then why not? right?

There is a fine line between making a living off someone else’s compositions and presenting them with a purely educational purpose in the on-line environment, and I don’t think the latter would cause any financial damage to anybody, so it shouldn’t be blamed, unless the companies are actually selling a similar product.

I wonder if they have any licensing problems with their videos on the CD?

I really don’t like the way things are going… if I didn’t have so many free resources when I was learning I never would have had the interest that I did. I also don’t really want to have to turn to pirate networks to get tab files.