Musicnotes has announced it has reached licensing agreements with several thousand music publishers and administrators, including BMG Music Publishing, peermusic, Famous Music and Bug Music who have agreed to license guitar and drum tablature for their song catalogs to be made available on http://www.MXTabs.net.
Through these licensing agreements, guitar and drum tablature for songs written by artists and songwriters throughout these catalogs will be made freely available for download at the MXTabs.net website.
This includes songs from such popular artists and bands as Coldplay, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Guess Who, Ryan Adams, Willie Dixon and thousands of others.
“When BMG Music Publishing partnered with Musicnotes six years ago, we were confident the Internet would be an incremental business for the music publishing industry. Since that time, the opportunities the Internet has provided for music publishers and songwriters have exploded,” said Nicholas Firth, Chairman and CEO, BMG Music Publishing Worldwide.
“Unfortunately, until now, the market for guitar and drum tablature has
been piracy. The best way to fight piracy is to enable legitimate services such as MXTabs.net. We are pleased to once again be part of a pioneering venture with Musicnotes through MXTabs.net, the first legally licensed tab community website, in offering our song catalogs to music consumers,” Firth concluded.
MXTabs.net is expected to launch its new website in summer 2007.
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