Tablature 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 f

Tablature 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.