Has anyone else seen this statement at guitartabs.cc?

gogunks · #1 July 25th, 2006

Check out this link. guitartabs.cc

Apparently the music publishers are going to try to keep you from showing how you personally feel a song should/could be played? Give me a break!

Perry

Donovan · #2 July 25th, 2006

Yea, this thing's been going on for a while. That MPA zealotry is a real pain in the *** if you ask me. I can understand musicians protecting their copyrighted material so no one goes off with it and makes big cash or a campaign against illegal downloads, but they are WAY overdoing it here. Sounds more like the music biz trying to squeeze some more dollars out of "official" tablature. And I don't think the musicians themselves will see much of that money. Here's another thread that contains some discussion on the topic. Read it if you haven't already...

si16 · #3 July 25th, 2006

What it needs is for one of these to go to court as a test case, surely no half-way decent judge would side with the industry lawers on this one. But, as guitartabs.cc say in their statement, which website has the resources to stand up to them.

allthumbs · #4 July 25th, 2006

They don't have to go to court. The fear factor is enough. Look at what has happened to tab and bt sites and yet there is no firm law on the books yet to warrant such action.

Hilch · #5 July 26th, 2006

I just had a look myself

Pretty ugly stuff that ...

One question has to be asked though ," how do us beginners learn then ?"

snowmoon · #6 July 26th, 2006

The problem is that the publishers are correct. The have the legal right to control distribution of the copyrighted content including tabs and words. Before recorded music, the biggest seller was sheet music and this is what they are attempting to protect. Part of the problem is that MPAA and the NMPA/MPA are seperate groups fighting for seperate rights ( and profits ). Where if they were one unified group they might realize that allowing some distribution of sheet music means more mindshare and more lucrative cd and concert sales.

Tabs are convienient for players, but not essential. People would go out and buy music books, people would trade riffs, and beginners would learn from others like they have for far longer than the internet has been around.

#7 August 7th, 2006

I would'nt even worry the least about that B.S. There's mega tons of free tab available ! Go check out this : top 100 tab sites.com That'll keep you rockin for a long time ! John