Threat To Free, Legal Guitar Tablature Online

An anonymous reader writes "Recently Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest songbook publisher, sent an email to the music publishing and copyright community urging them not to license guitar tablature for free, advertising-supported use online. The email includes a number of factual errors and was potentially very damaging to the potential for a free, legal, and licensed destination for guitar tab online. Musicnotes and MXTabs have posted the full letter along with their response."

Paging Larry Flynt ....

[DysenteryInTheRanks]

Wait, you mean these sites Musicnotes and MXTabs feature BARELY LEGAL examples of rubbing and stroking and vibrating TIGHT thin little stringy things, all in a series of Web pages that have been deemed TOO REVEALING and EXPLICIT by the leading moral authorities?

And we can get all this too-racy-for-the-Web content for free right now for a limited time only in the privacy of our own homes, and it will help us learn to "play" like rock stars?

Hott.

Wait, what were talking about again?

Re:Infuriating

[GFree]

So am I violating the license by possessing an unlicensed copy of (read "have memorized") a song?

Yes.

All your brains are belong to us.

- Music industry

Hal Leonard writes CRAP Music

[B_SharpC]

These Hal Leonard folks are pretty music illiterate. I have used their junk. How can you copyright crap?
 
I will post a guitar B Sharp cord (B# = C) lol. I dare almighty Hal 9000 to censor it!
 
  Censor This HAL!

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Re: Your Brains

[Puff of Logic]

All your brains are belong to us.

- Music industry

"Heya Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall..."

Re:Hal Leonard writes CRAP Music

[Anonymous Coward]

Standard tuning is EADGBE. Maybe Hal Leonard has a point about that accuracy thing...

Re:Infuriating

[cptgrudge]

All your brains are belong to us.

- Music industry

When you think about it, the there are a few similarities between the RIAA and a shambling herd of zombies.

• Both believe that they have a right to our brains, when in fact, they have no such right.
• They don't have any brains to speak of, which probably explains the zeal with which they pursue ours.
• As somewhat uncaring entities, both will not hesitate to destroy other people, even the progress of civilization itself in carrying out their vague goals.
• Both are pretty stupid. They are slow to react to external threats and changes, and seem to respond with aggressive action, rather than adapting with inventive and innovative ideas.

Uncanny!

A songbook publisher doesn't like this...

[jimicus]

A songbook publisher doesn't like the idea of guitar tabs made available free.

No kidding.

In related news, Turkeys are said to be very concerned about the celebration of Christmas and US-based turkeys have expressed concern over thanksgiving.

Furthermore, the Pope shits in the woods and bears are generally catholic.