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estebanana -> RE: Tabbing rules?? (May 24 2013 2:06:00)
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GJ ~ The Delcamp classical forum has work out a set of rules governing how they handle this situation. You may want to look at the TOS and rules over there see if you can glean any information about any past case law they may have encountered.
They are somewhat tighter. But they have structured the forum to have a pedagogical section, which may support the free use educational aspect of sharing tab.
My gut feeling, calling attention to this with a searchable discussion in public is bad juju. Like asking for trouble. --- Anyway--- Put tabs into a dedicated Educational Section for members only. Obviously don't publish any complete tap that is not certifiably in public domain. Publish fragments of tabs of non public domain works as educational material.
Most publishers of pure flamenco material know the "flamenco rules" and are not going to flip out about a handful of falsetas here or there, in fact citing where the material came from gives them a bit of free advertising. I my opinion in the flamenco world only an unbalanced belligerent will get nasty about reasonable sharing because the world is small, still. If they get a reputation for coming down legally on those trying to learn guitar, sales may drop.
In the case of an individual artist who's works have been entabulated by a Foro member, publish only fragments or a certain allowable Foro length. If someone wants to share an entire tab ( and for God's sake please learn to write in notation too) let them publish a fragment. Leave it as an unsaid Foro courtesy that if someone asks the entabulator *via Private Email off the Foro system* they can work it out between them to share entire pieces.
So far nothing has happened, right? I suggest, and I'm not a legal beagle or anything, but if the Foro appears to be ( and certainly is) sympathetic and honest about putting up tabs of individual artists, simply post a disclaimer in the educational tab section. This is where the skillful composition of a notice in graceful legalese comes into play:
*The flamenco foro shares these fragments of entabulated material as educational supplemental exercises for it's members. Should any private party ask their own material shall be removed....etc. *
( I'm obviously not the maker of legal notices, but something straight forward and not burdened with jargon)
Then be proactive. Invite established artists or publishers, should they be inclined, to publish a preview of personal material they have already released in public recordings. Every once in a while someone might publish a tid bit to whet appetites for an upcoming release of an edition of notated and entabulated music. Perhaps then that company would take out a payed banner ad to go along with the tab handout??
Not that I'm a Rumpole or Melvin Belli,
BTW did you know MB named his last dog Weldon Rumproast III? Herb Caen used to mention it often with much ado. Once I saw MB jamming across the GG bridge in his famous Hum-vee. Mind you that was a real low flat badass Hummer, pre the placing of a Baudlerized Hummer body of a GM chassis.
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