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Author Message Johnm Username: Johnm Registered: 08-2001 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 9:03 am:    Check this out: http://guitartabs.com/nmpa.php Question is are Tabs a violation of copyrights? Flatbag Username: Flatbag Registered: 09-2004 Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 10:05 am:    Yeah, I'm a member of powertabs.net and there was discussion about this a few months back - in fact the tabs were unavailable for a while there until the legalities were sorted out (I'm still not sure what the upshot is at the moment, but the tabs are back for now). I personally think it's ridiculous, as it's pretty hard to draw a line and say where it's piracy and where it's just one person showing another how they believe a song is played. Sure some of the tabs are copied straight from magazines, but then every tab I submitted was done by ear, and at the time of tabbing was not available in any books/magazines. Some songs will never be tabbed by publishers due to not being commercially viable, why shouldn't people still have access to them if I or someone else tabs them? Johns Username: Johns Registered: 02-2001 Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 4:54 pm:    I have found tab sites invaluable. Recently, many of the sites that I had bookmarked were disabled. I missed them and did find some alternatives. The debate about how far intellectual property rights extend is certainly a knotty problem. Maybe I'm not the best one to talk on this subject. My not-so-distant ancestors were key players in the fray that brought copyrights issues to the attention of the US Supreme Court: "In 1914, a group of prominent, visionary music creators founded ASCAP when they realized that their music was being performed without compensation to the writers. Founding member Victor Herbert brought a lawsuit to Shanley's restaurant in New York City for refusing to pay royalties. The fight took two years and went to the Supreme Court. ASCAP prevailed. And Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the decision of the Court. He said, "If music did not pay it would be given up. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit and that is enough." John Shanley

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