Music "copyright" gone too far?

[Ranorak]

After Youtube blocking several songs from several countries. And lyric sites getting knocked offline.
The music industry has found yet another target for their desprete attempt to make music as frustrating as can be.

Any guitar player out there knows how useful tabs can be.
Fan made tabs describing how you can play songs on your guitar.

But as of today, I seem to be unable to look at the tabs of Whole Lotta Love because:
"This tablature contains content from a third party publisher and has
been blocked by the Music Publishers Association in your country."

This isn't copied from music books.
This is made by someone listening to the song and writing down how he thinks it's played....

 

[Mazza35]

Oh my god, the tabs?!
NOT THE FUCKING TABS!

I swear it's gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too far!

We shall raise an army!

 

[tigermilk]

Wow, just wow.

I can see the argument that people are loosing out by possibly selling less books with tabs in, but this is just depressing.

If I was a musicain (for example as rich as Jimmy Page etc) I would be more concerned with inspiring people, with wanting to help the next generation than making even more money. I presume it isn't the decision of the people in Led Zeppelin to censor this but I am sure if they kicked up a fuss they could reverse the decision on their music and other artists* could follow.

And lyric sites!? I guess that is just to increase ad revenue to labels who create band sites, how depressing.

Sorry to hear that you couldn't access the tabs.

Perhaps record companies could follow in Disney's shoes and threaten to sue people who want to use their "intellectual property" to entertain children and parents... and shock horror not for profit!

*I am of the rather romantic attitude that an artist certainly a multi-millionaire musician shoulc be more concerned about being heard, influencing and inspiring people than making more money otherwise music is just a job to them and this depresses me (I do appreciatte many musicians or people in other creative industries may need the money for part or all of their career.)

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

It's ridiculous, music copyright has gone way too far...

Musicians should make most of their money off of live shows IMO...

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Has music copyright gone too far? Absolutely. Copyright in general has been extended so far beyond its original purpose that the whole system is in need of an overhaul. I find it odd, however, that you just found out that tabs are being pulled down; this has been going on since at least 2008, when several major tab sites were C&D'd into pulling down all of their tabs.

 

[Nouw]

You'll never get my sheet music. Never. Not as long as I breathe.

It has gone too far, in fact I think it has gone too far a long time ago.

 

[tokae]

The idiocy of the music-industry will be their downfall, just you wait.

 

[Alon Shechter]

They took THE TABS?!
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[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I guess it's because they would rather you buy their glossy tab books for an extortionate price. I think it's shitty, but I can see the logic.

What I don't get is region locked content, and the constant taking down/blocking of individual songs. I'm past the age where I can stand music-tv, I don't listen to the radio, there are no record shops left near me... If it weren't for the internet and Jools Holland's show, I wouldn't be exposed to anything I deemed worthy of buying.

I've been burned enough times that I've learnt not to buy blindly, I do require to hear some of the record first.

 

[iLikeHippos]

It's ridiculous, music copyright has gone way too far...

Musicians should make most of their money off of live shows IMO...

There's very little money to be had from live shows when it comes down to all of the expenses... And even than, depending on your reputation, it may or may not be difficult to obtain a play to begin with.

All good it is, is for the artist's egos and/or for their fans and/or for potential fans.


OT; I find it quite ridiculous sometimes with the music copyright. I can understand when it's a full fucking song made by an artist, video hosted by someone who's not said artist, but it's real bullshit when the host has put in a 5 second music clip in, and for that, the video is muted ALL of the TIME, no matter the rest of the content.

 

[Craorach]

Copyright as a whole has gone to far. A system designed to ensure that people can make money from their art and not have it outright stolen has turned into a system to protect big business and ensure they can have a monopoly on all forms of art for decades.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and defend pirates or outright theives, but when a company (Disney) can rehash stories that have been told in europe and other areas of the world for centuries, and then use tactics such as Vaulting and Remastering to essentially keep their copyright extended almost perminantly something is wrong.

Copyright needs to be completely reformed, personally I think it should extend only to the original artists involved in a project for a period long enough for them to make a reasonable profit.. say ten to twenty years? Not to corporations, not to family members, not to people who "buy the rights". Only the original artists involved in the creation of a piece of work.

Edit : On the topic of music specificly, this doesn't suprise me in the least. It has come to the point in the music industry where artists must essentially pray that they do not accidently include a chord they heard decades ago in a song nobody has heard off because they can be sued.

 

[Antari]

Not too shocking really, the music has been doing absolutely everything it possibly can to turn me away as a customer over the years.

 

[Toasty Virus]

The tabs? the TABS? THE TABS?

WHYYYYYYYY

OT: This is going too far, it'll be the youtube covers next!