This is getting ridiculous.

By Mark on Monday 4 September 2006 at 10:33

Apparently music publishers are now issuing legal threats to guitar tablature sites, because apparently if you write down the tab for a song, even though you worked it out yourself, that's copyright infringement.

Fuck you, music industry.

11 comments:

On Monday 4 September 2006 at 13:05, billybean said:

Fucking insane. How fucking dare they?

On Monday 4 September 2006 at 18:00, pablo said:

they've gone to far i tells thee (i dont actually understand what any of that means) but they've crossed a line somewhere

On Monday 4 September 2006 at 18:31, stu said:

thats me fucked for songs then

On Monday 4 September 2006 at 21:40, D said:

Oops! That is my guitar learning buggered, then! Oh well - they'll never find out. I can play Mr. Jones, now (almost - well, badly). I can't tell you how I learnt it though!

On Tuesday 5 September 2006 at 08:54, billybean said:

Isn't there a 'Mrs Jones' as well. It would make a nice accompaniment. Although I don't know how you'll work out how to play it.

On Tuesday 5 September 2006 at 17:56, Sarah O'B said:

Surely that's if you have the right chords. If you've worked it out by ear, a lot of the time you don't get it quite right because of inversions, root notes, and whether the chord is augmented or diminished or whatever. The fact that you would have exactly the same chords would surely be coincidental. It's all in interpretation.

On Tuesday 5 September 2006 at 19:55, Mark said:

Well you would have thought so... however, to quote that article:

"...that doesn't wash with the music industry, which says even adaptations of songs are covered by copyright law."

On Thursday 7 September 2006 at 17:00, Sarah O'B said:

Wank

On Thursday 7 September 2006 at 17:47, Mark said:

That was more along the lines of the kind of comment we expect here. Well done.

On Thursday 7 September 2006 at 18:14, pablo said:

And what do you mean by that Mark?? i think our discussion about who was sick on my shoes was very highbrow!

On Friday 8 September 2006 at 13:37, billybean said:

I'm still getting everything I need from,

www.ultimate-guitar.com

www.azchords.com

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