Keeping Tabs: The Legal issue

As some of you may know over the past year there has been a lot of legal issues when it comes to websites posting guitar tablatures online. Sites Like Metaltabs.com, Guitartabs.cc and OLGA have been threatened with lawsuits over copyright infringement saying that posting tablature is illegal. You can read a statement from guitarzone.com here.NMPA Threatens guitartabs.cc
The National Music Publishers Association as well as the Music Publishers Association says sharing tablature constitutes infringement. As we all know this is just a case of they want to sell the right. However I don’t see how this can be because 99.9% of …read more