His videos got 3 million viewers in 8 months. Free Guitar lessons for beginners.

The publisher of Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones complained that one of their Riffs were used in one video – SO ALL Video got pulled and his account closed.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070708-9999-7m8guitar.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11778602

Its not as bad as the YoungTubersUnited thing

I've not read the stories, but if that's true it's ridiculous.

This is exactly how young musician learn; they learn how to play a song and then show others. By playing that riff, he wouldn't have been harming their sales or anything, so why did those fat-cat music publishers even have to get involved? Seriously, have these music executives lost all common sense?

Maybe the software in charge of busting copyright infractions which is *too* powerful?

BTW, I know a more ridiculous story: once in France, at the end of the school year, a group of pupils sang "Good bye dear teacher" ("Au revoir monsieur le professeur"), a famous French song, because the year following they will not have the same teacher. A press article was made to related this poignancy moment. Days later, the "French RIAA" (SACEM), send a letter to the school, a bill of 100 dollars because of infringement of copyright... So ridiculous, the author of the original song has purposed to pay himself the bill...

This copyright enforcement thing is going too far...

I'm in San Diego and I've met Taub once. He's a really cool guy. This "is" quite ridiculous. I can't believe Google didn't look into this more before deleting all his videos and account.