I was reading a discussion about UG and how their money-seeking practices are rather poor, for lack of better words.

Does anyone know if there is an open-source database of tabs and chord charts, or perhaps some kind of aggregator for community contributions?

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The music and entertainment industry is fucked up. How is tabs even copyrighted? Are recipes copyrighted? Bullshit.

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I found this article while searching, seems like guitar tabs aren’t covered by fair use out of an antiquated standard.

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That’s interesting, I just read a few lines… Does it say how UG has stayed in business? Do they write a check to Big Music?

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Ultimate Guitar has an article they wrote about that

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Yeah, they “went legit” years ago and have licensing deals with a lot of music publishers now.

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