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submitted 1 year ago by astraeus@programming.dev to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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I was reading a discussion about UG and how their money-seeking practices are rather poor, for lack of better words.

Does anyone know if there is an open-source database of tabs and chord charts, or perhaps some kind of aggregator for community contributions?

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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The music and entertainment industry is fucked up. How is tabs even copyrighted? Are recipes copyrighted? Bullshit.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this article while searching, seems like guitar tabs aren’t covered by fair use out of an antiquated standard.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's interesting, I just read a few lines... Does it say how UG has stayed in business? Do they write a check to Big Music?

[–] gradecurve@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they "went legit" years ago and have licensing deals with a lot of music publishers now.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ultimate Guitar has an article they wrote about that

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

*someone on their platform wrote about it, not written by UG in an official capacity