Furious! Rick Beato’s YouTube Copywrite Strike and why it is BAD for Music.

Music lecturer gets copywrite strike for teaching music. YouTube is making it impossible to teach music as teachers cannot use examples of ANYONE else’s work without the risk of being copywrite striked’. Teachers like Rick Beato (from the video) are already de-monetizing their videos so that all the money already goes to the artists. If a record label wants it can have the video blocked, which happens of course. The final step is to issue (usually from the publisher not the artists themselves) a copywrite strike. If a YouTuber gets three strikes, they get their YouTube channel REMOVED.

This is bad for everyone; I can’t personally understand why any artist who isn’t making music anymore wouldn’t want free media exposure to a younger generation and take royalties (from a demonetized video). For example, the band TOOL shared one of Rick’s videos as it was from a music teaching series called ”What makes this song Great”.

This is making it increasingly difficult to use modern technology to teach relevant material to a wide range of audiences introducing them to new ideas, concepts, and musical theories.

Instead of social media expanding knowledge to grow and develop modern, younger generation of musicians it is instead subjugating them to limited experiences and material. IF it does not stop and become more along the lines of what it’s supposed to be aka ”FAIR USE” then amazing music lecturers like Rick Beato are going to disapear and we will be left with minimal exposure to the true art of music.

I highly recommend supporting Rick Beato and following his channels.

Matt Gwinnutt

My name is Matt Gwinnutt and I am a music instructor based in Louth, Lincolnshire in the UK. I teach guitar and music theory. I am currently studying for a BA(Hons) degree in music and RGT diploma in teaching music!