Please do NOT post any tabs, music book scans...etc of ANY published material.


It's against the law.....and uncool.


Update:

1) Did you figure out the Tab? POST IT
2) Did someone else presumably figure it out? POST IT
3) Did you purchase the tab? DO NOT POST IT
4) Did you scan a book? DO NOT POST IT
5) Did someone else scan a book? DO NOT POST IT
6) Is it a scan of a hand written tab? POST IT

Hopefully that helps.

Hey dude, I see you deleted my thread about the books. I wasn't sure if you'd like the idea of it being uploaded so that's why I asked first, thanks.

I suppose this excludes Powertabs? I figure that if there had been a problem with that topic, it would have been closed long before it gained that many pages.

Power tabs are not published collections that are sold to the public.

True, but the songs they are for might have published tabs. At least, that was the crazy thought I had when I posted that...just ignore me.

I fact,

most of the songs on mysongbook.com are now unavailable because of that....they said that is illegal to put tabs from songs that have copyrights and stuff like that...

All very true, but the tabs that were posted before were, supposedly, created by regular players "for educational purposes only". They weren't tabs scanned from a book or some other commercial source.

Yeah, i had a look at that Torrent file and they are all Jap books. Hence the reason they were put in a Torrent.

Actually, its pretty fair to say that anything thats a Torrent is something you should pay for. Unless its a Tom Cruise film and then knock yourself out

ROFL....EXACTLY!


Yeah...PowerTabs created by players...who've figured songs out....Totally fine.

What If I figured the song out by looking at a tab book?

Then you didn't "figure it out", you learned it.

What's the difference is between someone not being allowed to post a tab book and someone posting live shows of Racer X or Badlands? I'm asking this civilly and not trying to cause a whole debate. Just would like to know. Thanks. Surely both are copyrighted?

The difference is one is available commerically and the other is not. Bootleg shows are offered for die hard fans who presumably already own the band's entire discography. They are not taking away any income from the band because the material is not available for sale. Tab books are commericially available products and if someone gives out free copies it reduces sales of the legitimate product.

OK, I see now. Thanks for the info.

BUT CAN I POST MY OWN TAB´S ?? and if yes ! HOW ??

you can start with trying to hit the button on the left of your keyboard that says "Caps Lock" im sure we'd all apreciate it.
And to answer your question

Well it does say published material. If he sat and worked it out himself then he can. I do that myself too so it should be ok for me to upload that if I wanted. But if he copyied it out of a book then THAT'S illegal.

How i interpreted it, is you cannot post tabs of published material as in, you cannot post tabs of music that has been published in anywayz.
That means no tabs at ALL, execpt tabs of songs you've written yourself.

Well I dno. I think it's a stupid rule to say no Racer X/Paul Gilbert tabs WHATSOEVER even if you transcribed them yourself because that's not copywrite is it.