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Teaching Someone To Play A Song Is Infringement; What utter cunts!!
Topic Started: Aug 1 2006, 09:14 AM (64 Views)
Zybch
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Music Publishers Now Say Teaching Someone To Play A Song Is Copyright Infringement

Guitar Tab Universe — Open Letter To Users

To all “Guitar Tab Universe” visitors:

The company which owns this website has been indirectly threatened (via our ISP) with legal action by the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) as well as the Music Publishers’ Association (MPA) on the basis that sharing tablature constitutes copyright infringement. At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? This website, among other things, helps users teach each other how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet.

When you are jamming with a friend and you show him/her the chords for a song you heard on the radio, is that copyright infringement? What about if you helped him/her remember the chord progression or riff by writing it down on, say, a napkin… infringement? If he/she calls you later that night on the phone or e-mails you and you respond via one of those methods, are you infringing? I don’t know… but I would really like to know. If anyone has information on this, please email support@guitartabs.cc.

Apparently, the NMPA/MPA believes that the Internet may be on the foul side of the legality line they would like to draw here. For me, I see no difference. It’s teachers educating students and covered as a ‘fair use’ of the tablature. The teachers here don’t even get paid nor do the students have to pay this website to access the lessons.

Based on this, I wonder if teaching a baby to talk is copyright infringement on some level. You’re teaching the child words used in copyrighted books. What about teaching someone a foreign language? Is that preventing someone who wrote a book on teaching that language from getting their royalty? I don’t know what one is supposed to do here to stay legal.
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Prushka
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It's gotten way out of hand

One of the 1st law suits in England's common law was over an acorn, which a neighbor's pig ate...don't recall the settlement. I was wondering why these people were so fucking tight and figured it was because the Overlords left'em with crumbs

What does 1 do with an acorn anyway...guess you'd sell'em to the pigs owner
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