Petition To Keep tablature sites open

Earthhorse

John2 wrote:

...this is in some cases a substantial source of revenue for artists that is being lost.

I'd agree with pretty much everything in your post except this. Most artists don't make their sheet music available for sale. Those that do are generally very popular and get the majority of the their money from record sales and concerts.

You have suggested the setting up of some iTunes type service where we could buy the tab, which is a nice idea, but until such a service exists there is no loss financially to the artist.

John

Earthhorse wrote:

I'd agree with pretty much everything in your post except this. Most artists don't make their sheet music available for sale. Those that do are generally very popular and get the majority of the their money from record sales and concerts.

You have suggested the setting up of some iTunes type service where we could buy the tab, which is a nice idea, but until such a service exists there is no loss financially to the artist.

Ok granted most artists don't technically lose money at the moment because they're not selling a product. However if a tab site was made up where you could buy tabs one by one, I think that the site would be able to hire transcribers who would work on the top requested songs or whatever. It might encourage artists to transcribe their own music to sell too.

projectmayhem

artists are free to do covers of other artists' songs, as long as they don't publish the songs for money (though it is a bit of a legal loophole tbh), so the same rules apply to tabs atm.

the sites are shutting down because those who run them can't afford to go into a legal battle with 5 record labels... tbh not even lars ulrich has come out and said "omfg those **** are stealing our art!#@!"

John

projectmayhem wrote:

artists are free to do covers of other artists' songs, as long as they don't publish the songs for money (though it is a bit of a legal loophole tbh), so the same rules apply to tabs atm.

the sites are shutting down because those who run them can't afford to go into a legal battle with 5 record labels... tbh not even lars ulrich has come out and said "omfg those **** are stealing our art!#@!"

No artist is free to do covers. If you play a cover as part of a performance, you owe the person who wrote it money. It's just that this is rarely enforced, especially for small time bands. Tab sites as they are/were break copyright law, plain and simple. It's only now that the publishing companies (which has **** all to do with a record label) are doing anything about it.

Doctor J

projectmayhem wrote:

the sites are shutting down because those who run them can't afford to go into a legal battle with 5 record labels

Again, I tell you this has nothing to do with any record labels.

drop-d

Any good musician worth his salt can identify the tab himself....

Let the crap musicians pay!

Hello Miju;)