Thats a pretty good explanation to me. The basics of licensing law is that if a producer revokes GT's licences for certain songs they are no longer able to include them on their site legally. It'll come down to finances, or that a competitor paid for the licensing with an exclusivity clause. Meaning that only they can host the songs for a certain period of time. You'll find lessons on multiple other sites but the question is are they hosted legally? Sites like Ultimate Guitar mostly host user created content, so it's just some dude that figured it out showing you how to play a song, rather than a company showing you how to play a song verbatim.

Also, it could be helpful for you to understand that there are multiple legalities involved in GT telling their users 'precisely' what has happened. Things like defamation come to mind should they mention any other companies involvement in the songs being pulled, including the producers. Sometimes you've gotta cop the backlash because redirecting it towards whoever is at fault could lead to massive repercussions.

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