• From: Stockton-on-Tees UK
  • Registered: 2010-07-22
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Topic: Copyright of TABS and chords

Hi

I'm very new to Chordie and must say it is what I have been looking for.  Everything I want is in one place and the option to create a personal songbook absolutely rocks. 

BUT  - I have noticed that a number of sites I have used before have stopped hosting TABS and chords for legal reasons in the last week or so.  Am I correct that this will affect the TABS and chords available via Chordie?  Also, will this affect what is in my songbook?

As an example both Justin Sandercoe and Fretplay have removed the TABS option.

Thanks for any advice you can provide.  Having just found this place I would like it to stay around.

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  • dino48
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Re: Copyright of TABS and chords

Hi bolleauxp, Ithink chordie is trying to avoid this,I have seen this also and watched other sites go away,I might suggest you warm up your copy machine and start finding the songs you want to keep. Put them into print, I did. I really love this sight it is the best one on the net.

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  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
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Re: Copyright of TABS and chords

One of the things in Chordie's favour is that it doesn't host any of the songs on the index, they are all from other sites and Chordie only finds them for you.

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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  • From: Stockton-on-Tees UK
  • Registered: 2010-07-22
  • Posts: 146

Re: Copyright of TABS and chords

The point I am making is that if webmasters are forced to remove chords and TABS from their sites for reasons of copyright then they will be removed from Chordie by default simply because that is the way the site works.  I would really hate to see that happen.  I will certainly start to print the songs I currently have in my songbook just in case of that eventuality - thanks for the tip Dino.

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5 Reply by Guitarpix (edited by Guitarpix 2010-07-26 18:51:08)

  • From: North Carolina
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Re: Copyright of TABS and chords

It's a good question and I'm not sure I can answer it....

If you have a song in your book and it is removed from the host site that Chordie borrows it from , then the song is going to vanish.

The part I'm not sure about is the actual chordie archive... It may or may not automatically search alternate sites to replace the tab/chords for a song already in the index if it goes missing.... If so, it could still be slightly different coming from an alternate site.

Printing is a good safeguard, as well is copying and pasting to a notebook/pad or other pc based storage program...

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