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Copyrights stopping YouTube guitar lessons?
Apparently you can take guitar lessons on YouTube. Sounds grand and innocent, until IP Law comes in.
The teachers who have posted on YouTube teach with copyrighted songs, and even a few chords are clearly enough to file suit.
From the NPR web site:
"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. He thinks it's only a matter of time before a licensing company orders YouTube to take them down.
"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.
Sandercoe doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. After all, he says, he rarely plays the songs all the way through. But Palfrey says all it takes is a few notes."
I know this might be the law, but this sounds a bit ridiculous.
You can listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9291453
Posted by at April 4, 2007 4:13 PM
