arstechnica.com — First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.
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jcuffeAug 14, 2006
I don't really understand how this is harmful to the record industry in any way. I see tablature as a way for people to get practice playing songs that are in the style they enjoy - it's not like someone's just going to go get some tabs off of a website and rerecord someone else's song and make millions.Sometimes you just like a song and want to know how the artist did it. I don't see the harm in that.
comp1demonAug 15, 2006
Next thing you know - your gonna have to pay Paris Hilton to say "THATS HOT".
habubuAug 15, 2006
which chords are owned by disney?
21_0Aug 15, 2006
=O Tab sites keep me out of the pr0n! ...The RIAA is promoting pornography in my eyes. I say we sue THEM. Bastards.
mt066Aug 15, 2006
Oh wow if this is true than it really sucks. Really. I used to play a ton of guitar in high school and one of the coolest things about it was that you could play any songs you heard on the radio for free (unless it was like Jimi Hendrix or something....frickin' impossible). Tabs are just lines and ascii text usually. And lots of songs use the same progressions and melodies, so how would you tell the difference? I used to have sympathy for these guys when their music was being stolen rampantly with total disregard, but they have crossed the line several times lately with these lawsuits and it's just really lame.
jthompAug 15, 2006
ridiculous. my dad plays his guitar religiously, he loves to go to tab sites and print out tabs and play his favorite songs. he's not buying them, selling them or posting them as his own, and i'd even be confident enough to see he owns the cd's that the songs he's getting the tabs for are on. how long will this idiocy go on?
comp1demonAug 15, 2006
Thats my point, Every Style of music - no matter how obscure is still around today becuase of people Learning it - iterpeting it and writting down how they interpeted that music so they can pass it on to others to learns. If every Genere of music, and it's compositionsthat are copywritten do not survive becuase of the music industry - they survivies through education and the passing on of the knowlege of the artist. I love classical Guitar, I tab out all sorts of complicated pieces - 95% of them cannot be bought in even Sheet music - too obscure, how do those peices survivie? They survive becuase people continue to learn them and teach others how to play them. They write them down, the trade them, give them away - and now put them on the net for all to find and use. I mentioned GREGGORIAN CHANT - this obsure chanting of music is pretty much obsolete through out the world, but some still learn it and use it (mostly religous institutions) - and even the Franchise 7-11 took a Gregorian Chant and made it into a commercial - I will guaranty you they didn't hire a musician to Write a whole new chant melody - but the words were inprovised for the chant - though the music for it was pre -exisiting. Did they have to pay anyone for that - probibly not - since there is probibly no copywrite on it - but even if there were they would not have to becuase it is their interpetation of the song. Wierd AL does this all the time. He replicates popular songs - puts in his own words and sells his album. He usually ask artist permission to do a parody - but I remember COOLIO say NO - flat out for his Ganster paridise - Wierd Al said f**k him and did Amish Paradise anyways - I believe Coolio filed an injuction aganst him for stealing his music - He lost... Wierd AL was triumphent.(c) on my comments
micromikeAug 15, 2006
It seems to me nobody has stolen more intellectual property from song writers and musicians than the RIAA. It's time somebody stole their life's work and gave them nothing in return so they can know what it feels like.I love it when thieves get robbed, and these guys are professionals at cheating artists out of their due payment for their work. Add that to the fact that many artists have come forward to say they get absolutely nothing from online sales of music, and what they really want is for their music to be heard by everyone.
ryan0Aug 16, 2006
Sing along:"Ah-wemba-weh, ah wemba-weh... in the jungle, the mighty jungle..."They wish!!!
felchdonkeySep 19, 2006
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