Reply To: Song Book
@Rob: Thanks for doing your bit to bump the thread. Looking good!
@MjStrwy: I am no expert on this stuff, but I can't see what kind of copyright a tabber or transcriber can lay claim to – we are only reverse-engineering a piece of work belonging to somebody else. Arrangements that add significant "value" to the base product might be a different issue, but then the burden is on the arranger to (successfully) assert some form of copyright over that arrangement. Sounds too much like homework to me, and I can't for the life of me imagine that anybody hanging around here would be aggressively asserting ownership like that. If you ask me, tabs are up for grabs within the bounds of courteous behavior, and if you are uncertain about your right to use the chord symbols transcribed by person x, then just ask person y to do it. Seen in a different light, if I wrote down some dialog from a movie, do I own that transcription? It still boils down to what the movie's copyright owner allows us all to do.