Originally Posted by: jarnac.chambers

I can understand artists being stingy with rights to their recorded songs, but a music teacher teaching their versions of songs? Weird. Not like Neil Young's gonna miss out on giving guitar lessons himself, so wonder what the actual issue is? That awesome shutupandplay bloke (Andy) could get hammered if teaching your interpretation of songs is an issue.

Look here at a thread about this subject. There is a lot in legally obtaining the rights to a song. As simple as it would seem, it's not easy.

Also, watch this video from Rick Beato on this very subject. One thing he said in this vid (paraphrasing); you have managers who still think in terms of the 'old way' and want total control over everything thinking that they are losing money.

To legally license songs, it's a hard road. Read through that thread. It will explain a lot.

Jeff