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E-Commerce Report: Hoping to Move Guitar Notations Into the Legal Sunshine

Date: April 2, 2007
Author: Bob Tedeschi
QUOTE: Because of an agreement in March between MusicNotes, an online music publisher and the Harry Fox Agency, which represents 31,000 music publishers, guitar tablature — a popular system for teaching and learning guitar — will enter the legitimate business realm for the first time...Publishers claimed that even incorrect versions of music notation violate copyright laws, since the postings represent “derivative works” related to the original compositions, to use the legal parlance.

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