Guitar Lessons As The Transmission of Culture

Here is an interesting post I came across today, if your into the copyright debate about music and the internet you might like to read. Sometimes I wonder how YouTube is going to stay in business, everytime you turn around they are getting sued or someone is getting them to take down the videos.

What’s next? Are they gonna charge you for whistling a tune, or what about all those guitar instructors and musicians out there that play music, is someone going to hunt them down and make them pay royalties everytime they strum a chord?

I imagine this shadowy underground world, outside of the net, where wild men roam free and play popular cover songs without paying a dime in royalties…

One Response to “Guitar Lessons As The Transmission of Culture”

1. Walt Ribeiro Says:

   Very true and interesting thoughts. As a music teacher online that gives guitar lessons, I sometime wonder about copyright and internet publishing. The thing is that the internet makes it free, easy, and anonymous. So Creative Commons copyright is sort of like the new copyright in some cases.

   November 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm

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