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This is amazing. Awesome work. How much trouble have you ran into licensing / obtaining tabs for popular copyrighted songs? I think a legitimate tab database

• Dewie 13y ago
  Ethically speaking, I don't care if a database has "legit" tabs or not. (I downloaded 1000's of tabs in a zip a lot of years ago, that was definitely helpful as far as learning songs goes.) It's one thing if a it is a song that a band has actually recorded themselves, but an "illegitimate" tab is often the labor of the listeners. You could say that it is plagiarism, but I'd argue that it isn't as long as it doesn't pretend to be something that it is not ("my new cool song!"). It seems comparable to transcribing a video presentation (the video presentation might be copy righted). Artists don't owe it to give out tabs of their songs, but listeners don't owe it to artists to not lay out what it was that they heard.
• adrianh 13y ago
  We sell tabs as part of our Pitch Perfect program (http://www.soundslice.com/pitch-perfect/ http://www.soundslice.com/pitch-perfect/), and for that we deal directly with the artist to clear copyrights. The YouTube (free) part of the site is meant to be a loss leader / tech demo for Pitch Perfect and our technology licensing. We haven't run into any licensing issues. It'll be interesting to see what happens over time, as I don't believe in putting ads on the site, and I'd like to keep a free version and a pay-for version.