I just signed up ... what a wonderful initiative. Before immersing myself in the tutorials, I just want to say that I think the question of theft is a tricky one. I agree that, as artists--or potential artists--our goal is absolutely not to turn out copies of other people's works. However, the example of Bach always comes to mind. When he was young, he severely injured his eyesight (in later years he went blind) by copying out the works of earlier masters (Vivaldi, Monteverdi, etc.) by moonlight. To learn from them. To understand what made their music work, or where it fell short ... and then he went on to create his own music, unquestionably a step ahead of what had gone before him.

So, I believe that if we "copy" with this spirit, to get to know the existing limits of our materials in order to push them forward, it's not a bad thing. Just my 2 cents.