Talk:Tablature

Wiki closure
I wrote to Jimmy Wales and Terry Foote a few days ago after realising the tablature wiki was including lyrics, which Wikicities has refused to host in the past. I was concerned about copright violations, that the tabs are only allowed as "fair use" anyway, and that tabs have caused sites to be taken down in the past.

Jimmy replied:
 * "Tablatures are basically just music, how to play the music, just like traditional musical scores. I don't think we can have this."
 * "If it is a person's own interpretation, then it is a derivative work of the song itself, and a clear copyright violation."

Terry wrote:
 * "I did a little research about this, and online tablatures are a copyright violation."

Angela 20:39, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)