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I don't see why it should be free, he should get the permission of the person who created the music. You know, it's a job called composer. People do this for t
by buster 6y ago
I don't see why it should be free, he should get the permission of the person who created the music. You know, it's a job called composer. People do this for their living and create music. Now, you have one person copying it, making money with it, presumably without even asking for permission to copy parts of it.
As a software developer you wouldn't even think of copying copyrighted code of some other project. The project would need to be free/open source to do so. So, I am wondering why it should be ok for music to be copied but for software we have this distinction.
After all, if the songs would be creative commons, noone would complain.
- temporallobe 6y agoTablature is not even close to copying someone’s musical work. It’s a description of an existing work, and in no way takes away from the original composer. In fact, it’s an incomplete description since it does not include anything else a typical music score would have. Many times a composer does not even write their own tablature nor would they even know how to. The closest (admittedly weak) analogy I can think of in the software world is if you reverse-engineered some existing software by simply observing its behavior. That’s not copying someone’s code, but is this copying someone’s entire work? That’s similar in some ways to recording a cover of an existing song. That’s a philosophical debate I’d love to have, and a legal issue for IP lawyers.