Free Guitar Lessons On YouTube? Not Anymore!

YouTube is a huge website that hosts all kinds of clips starting with cat videos and ending with guitar lessons. Speaking of this type of tutorials, YouTube just lost a valuable resource of videos for numerous guitar students after the online video sharing service was forced to remove approximately 100 clips from the main page. It all started when the guitar teachers published videos on YouTube in order to teach students how to play the guitar with ease. But the main problem was that he used a Rolling Stones song as the background and as the example so a music company accused the user of copyright infringement.

According to Afterdawn, this interesting campaign started as a joke when some of the instructors played the guitar in the back yard. Justin Sandercoe, one of the teachers, created a special website that is continuously updated using the donations from the users. "I like the idea of being able to deliver quality guitar lessons to people who can't afford lessons, or who are in places where there's not that kind of access to somebody who can teach them the right stuff," he said according to the same source.

As you know, the copyright infringement cases are not something new for the online video sharing service because the parent company was always brought in the spotlights due to unauthorized clips published on its page. Since the Google acquisition in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, YouTube was accused of copyright infringement by a huge number of companies.

However, the latest and the most famous lawsuit was filed by Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central that first demanded the removal of no less than 100.000 clips from the page. Just after the removal was started, Viacom sent Google to the judge and required $1 billion in damages.