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Dunno.
I find Beato's presentation of multitracks problematic.
There's not really a legal pathway to obtain these files in the first place.
He takes basically pirated files. They are somebodies intellectual property and were never meant for public circulation.
He does not license the use of the songs in his commercial videos. (And yeah, "de-monetized", promotional content is commercial.)
He shares them without consent from the artists.
I find this deeply disrespectful.
(As a side note: I found his commentary often lacking additional value, in the few videos that I watched. The value is in playing the isolated tracks.)
Guitar Whatshisname is performing covers on video, as do myriads of other people.
Which is fine, from an intellectual property perspective, as long as the original artists getting their fair share of the royalties.
Which most people performing covers on video aren't utterly concerned about. Show me the people who get a proper sync license for social media use, so the don't get a "copyright strike"*.
So, what he does is kinda business as usual.
I fail to see what's especially egregious in his case.
* "copyright strikes" are slaps on the wrist for not properly licensing music for video use.
It's a bit like "borrowing" the neighbors lawn mower for your own pocket money gardening business without asking first.
Rick Beato knows that, he's been in music publishing for ever.
Him whining on a regular basis that he can't "fair use" other people's intellectual property for free for his own business is kinda disgusting.
Anyways...
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