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(and it must be pretty darn important, I never talk in CAPS)
I recently discovered that GuitarTutee (http://www.guitartutee.com/) has stolen some of my tabs from here and put them on their website. Their website has a disclaimer
"The lyrics posted in this website are properties of respective artists. Everything else, if you shall allow us to say so, is ORIGINAL. GT ORIGINAL."
This is not true! If they've stolen mine, I'm sure they've stolen other peoples' too. The difference is - I noticed. And I tried to do something about it. I e-mailed them a couple weeks ago with a list of the tabs I thought (knew) were stolen. They were identical to mine, copied and pasted directly from here. I could tell because some of them had typos I hadn't fixed. I told them they were stolen and gave them the links to mine, and asked them for proper credit, just a link to my tab at the top of theirs.
I never received an e-mail back. Today, I went to the same tabs and they've been EDITED. All GuitarTutee did was move the chords out of the tabs, and place them at the top so it would look different. They also changed some of the chord names. (IE: Cadd9 to C9) They are still based off of my tabs!
The thing is, I only noticed that some of my Taylor Swift tabs were stolen, so those were the only ones they changed. I went looking around today and found two of my Kate Voegele tabs had also been stolen. So these have not yet been edited, and I can prove it.
Is there anything I can do about this? I tried to be nice about it but now I'm just really pissed. I'd sue their a**es if I thought I could. (but I guess that's going a little too far, huh?) The thing is, I think it really is illegal, because on this page: http://www.guitartutee.com/leave-your-request/ they give you the option to "donate" to get your tab added faster. Someone is literally "buying" a tab, and if GuitarTutee adds a stolen tab, they're profiting from our hard work. I'm pretty sure that's illegal...
If there's nothing I can really do, can you guys at least help me spread the word? We'll give 'em a bad name!
And if anyone's interested, here are the tabs they stole from me: (that I know of)
If anyone finds any others you think are mine, let me know please! |
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