Where have all the tab sites gone?Anyone with a battered six-string and a PC can now satiate their need for material to play simply by viewing tablatures, songs "tabbed" in an easy-to-read format for playback on a guitar, on many popular websites.But recently many of the web's more popular tab sites are beginning to disappear - much to the dismay of budding guitarists everywhere. MXTabs, Guitartabs.cc, Guitartabs.com, Taborama.com and MySongBook are just a few of the sites that have been forced to close down recently - but why?The answer lies in a small organisation known as the Music Publishers Association (which acronymises nicely to MPA) which has been issuing MPAA-like letters warning webmasters that their websites are infringing copyright. But why? Popular tab site Guitartabs.cc had this to say:"At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? This website [and tablatures], among other things, helps users teach eachother how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet..."But isn't this the case all too often? The copyright holders feel the need to dig deeper into their pockets, thinking only of their finances and not of the greater good of the people?There is one tablature supersite that's doing things a little differently however, called Ultimate-Guitar.com. Read full story...
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