<story><title>Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F63x345mCA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Ok, I watched the video and his rationale for why his guitar tabs were &amp;quot;fair use&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;1) he wrote out the tabs himself instead of copying them from a copyrighted book and&lt;p&gt;2) he wasn&amp;#x27;t making any &lt;i&gt;direct&lt;/i&gt; money by selling the tabs themselves; however he also acknowledges was getting &lt;i&gt;indirect&lt;/i&gt; money via Youtube monetization of the videos that displayed the tabs on screen&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, he was naive and probably wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of history.  Back in the USENET days, the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were &lt;i&gt;made by volunteers for no money&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;He was playing with copyright fire and didn&amp;#x27;t know it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwnspace</author><text>I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn&amp;#x27;t feel it much. When they came for OLGA, I was skipping school to play guitar 12+ hours a day. It was around my 15th birthday. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure I cried. I still have a precious folder of printouts from &amp;lt;2006 - I don&amp;#x27;t play guitar much now, but it only just occurred to me that OLGA is probably &lt;i&gt;somewhere&lt;/i&gt; online... :D</text></comment>
<story><title>Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F63x345mCA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Ok, I watched the video and his rationale for why his guitar tabs were &amp;quot;fair use&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;1) he wrote out the tabs himself instead of copying them from a copyrighted book and&lt;p&gt;2) he wasn&amp;#x27;t making any &lt;i&gt;direct&lt;/i&gt; money by selling the tabs themselves; however he also acknowledges was getting &lt;i&gt;indirect&lt;/i&gt; money via Youtube monetization of the videos that displayed the tabs on screen&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, he was naive and probably wasn&amp;#x27;t aware of history.  Back in the USENET days, the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were &lt;i&gt;made by volunteers for no money&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;He was playing with copyright fire and didn&amp;#x27;t know it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wool_gather</author><text>&amp;gt; the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were made by volunteers for no money.&lt;p&gt;And then, to further the travesty, those freely contributed tabs were hoovered up by commercial sites and became only available there.</text></comment>