Legal sites with guitar tab for purchase like iTunes: Sheetmusicdirect, Freehandmusic, and Musicnotes.com.
Lastly, if you didn't see the news, MXTabs.net is coming back this summer as a free, legally licensed guitar tab site.
I should also point out that you can buy and download legal guitar tab for The Killers (or buy a tab book, if you'd prefer that) at sites like Musicnotes.com. Here's a direct link: Licensed The Killers guitar tab.
The publishing rights to The Killers are administered by Universal Music Publishing who has an exclusive print distribution contract with Hal Leonard Corporatoin. In order to see tabs from The Killers, you probably are going to be best off trying to contact Universal Music Publishing (David Renzer would be your best bet)... but then you'll hit a dead end because Hal Leonard is trying to block any legal guitar tab initiative.
This news is so old. The site posted this letter and there were articles written about it, etc. almost a year ago. In the time since, a lot of other sites have also shut down. MXTabs.net also shut down last summer due to the same reason - it has since been purchased, and is being relaunched this summer as a legal alternative.
Anyway, I was shocked to see Slashdot featuring a story that's a year old. Next thing we know there will be an announcement that the US is going to war with Iraq.
Actully there are sites like iTunes for sheet music. http://www.musicnotes.com/ has been around for about 7 or 8 years now and has been working on the iTunes model since before iTunes even existed. They have over 50,000 legally available sheet music downloads avaialable - almost all popular music. If you can't find it there, you probably won't find it anywhere. Plus, you can download individual songs and are not forced to buy a full book (although if you want to buy the book, they sell those as well).
Hope this clears things up.
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For more information on why it's not Fair Use: Why Guitar Tabs Don't Fall Under Fair Use
Legal sites with guitar tab for purchase like iTunes: Sheetmusicdirect, Freehandmusic, and Musicnotes.com. Lastly, if you didn't see the news, MXTabs.net is coming back this summer as a free, legally licensed guitar tab site.
I should also point out that you can buy and download legal guitar tab for The Killers (or buy a tab book, if you'd prefer that) at sites like Musicnotes.com. Here's a direct link: Licensed The Killers guitar tab.
The publishing rights to The Killers are administered by Universal Music Publishing who has an exclusive print distribution contract with Hal Leonard Corporatoin. In order to see tabs from The Killers, you probably are going to be best off trying to contact Universal Music Publishing (David Renzer would be your best bet)... but then you'll hit a dead end because Hal Leonard is trying to block any legal guitar tab initiative.
This news is so old. The site posted this letter and there were articles written about it, etc. almost a year ago. In the time since, a lot of other sites have also shut down. MXTabs.net also shut down last summer due to the same reason - it has since been purchased, and is being relaunched this summer as a legal alternative. Anyway, I was shocked to see Slashdot featuring a story that's a year old. Next thing we know there will be an announcement that the US is going to war with Iraq.
At least when MXTabs re-launches as a legal service, drum tabs will be included as well.
Actully there are sites like iTunes for sheet music. http://www.musicnotes.com/ has been around for about 7 or 8 years now and has been working on the iTunes model since before iTunes even existed. They have over 50,000 legally available sheet music downloads avaialable - almost all popular music. If you can't find it there, you probably won't find it anywhere. Plus, you can download individual songs and are not forced to buy a full book (although if you want to buy the book, they sell those as well). Hope this clears things up.