Guitar instruction sites shut down by music industry

The Register ^ | Tuesday 29th August 2006 | OUT-LAW.COM

[grjr21]

"At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringement?


When a lawyer thinks he can make a buck off of it.

[SamAdams76]

The recording industry is doing their damndest to destroy any new talent.

[mylife]

I knew it was only a matter of time before they came after us for singing around the campfire

[Fighting Irish]

....and to further put a light on this....

How much $ is going to the artist and how much to the lawyers?


.....slime bags

[Fighting Irish]

I knew it was only a matter of time before they came after us for singing around the campfire

Just keep it under 4 bars.......[/sarcasm]

[pollyannaish]

It seems to me that the middlemen who have controlled this industry for so long are fast loosing their power and meal tickets.

And they are getting increasingly desperate.

[dead]

Next the music industry is going to try to charge you for wearing spandex and snorting coke.

[oceanview]

these sites simply need to move offshore.

[grjr21]

Very little of that money ever went to the artist. My understanding is that unless they own the record company most artist only recieve about .25 cents for every album sold

[proudofthesouth]

Lawyers and Demorats are destroying this country. (Include gutless Repubs in that too).

[tet68]

they came after us for singing around the campfire


"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree......here what's this?
A summons????"

[oceanview]

yes, but they are winning these cases. getting new laws passed, etc.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Yeah, this is why record sales are in the tank, all those 12 year olds learning to play the bass from "Smoke on the Water" for free.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

DCG
FC right after "love the Guv'ner"

That's the chordprogression to Sweet Home Alabama and a million other songs.

Horrible copyright infringment.

[sgtbono2002]

Its reached the point of being ridiculous.

Greedy bastids.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

chordprogression = chord progression

[darkangel82]

It couldn't be the fact that today's "music" is terrible, could it?

[operation clinton cleanup]

"People can get [tab] for free on the internet, and it's hurting the songwriters," MPA president Lauren Keiser told the New York Times. The trade associations represent publishers, who share royalties from tab book sales with the composers of the material.

How can they prove the tabs were stolen from published material and not just worked out by someone with talent and a good ear?

[Your Nightmare]

I knew it was only a matter of time before they came after us for singing around the campfire

Fire mine! U no steal!

[AndrewB]

When a lawyer thinks he can make a buck off of it.

Man, you got that right. I noticed the tab sites going down one-by-one a few months back. There are still some left (don't tell the lawyers.) I'm snatching everything I might want to play.

Online tab is superior to tabulate books because many are written for specific programs that allow the music to be played back on your computer. You can vary speed or repeat certain sections; Far better that a book and CD. I'd pay for good online tabs, but that's not an option currently.