Re: The end of tabs?
Well, the law may have changed since I took business law in 1981, but the 85% rule was cited there, and cited when George Harrison lost the case for My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine. Again, my point in that post, which I may not have made clearly, is that you'd also have to change the name pf the song to make it look as if it was your own song that you'd tabbed out, not a tab of the "famous" song. I also said that while 85% was the rule of thumb, that a judge would decide and that an 80% similarity would not necessarily get you off the hook.
Figure that so many rock, pop- and metal songs have similar modes of construction that there could be a lot more plagarism suits than there are.
Well, the law may have changed since I took business law in 1981, but the 85% rule was cited there, and cited when George Harrison lost the case for My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine. Again, my point in that post, which I may not have made clearly, is that you'd also have to change the name pf the song to make it look as if it was your own song that you'd tabbed out, not a tab of the "famous" song. I also said that while 85% was the rule of thumb, that a judge would decide and that an 80% similarity would not necessarily get you off the hook.
Figure that so many rock, pop- and metal songs have similar modes of construction that there could be a lot more plagarism suits than there are.
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