Marty Schwartz uploaded his first guitar tutorial in order to make sure one of his students was practicing. He now teaches people online through guitar tutorials and gets 7 million views a month.

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A few months ago NPR told you about people teaching guitar on YouTube. Now one of them has had all his videos pulled from the site amid complaints of copyright infringement. NPR's Frank Langfitt ...