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."

Comments

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

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!