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Right. That's why I suggested e-mailing the files not posting or linking to them. That takes PG entirely out of the equation AFAIK.



oh, I see. I missed your point, sorry. You can certainly do that.

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And there is also no guarantee (from PG's point of view) that the songs posted on the User Showcase are actually original.


true... but that's where the group's self monitoring comes in. By making sure that the rules are adhered to, forum members have a better chance of keeping this great forum alive

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Sequences of chord changes are essentially not subject to copyright protection and that is what I'm referring to...not songs with melodies.


as I read farther down, I see that you haven't been happy with most of the songs you've DL from the web... which are all sequences of chords. Many of the ones I've found even contain the signature licks and melody(now they're not so legal) but I still don't like the way they sound.

So, to be honest, you are looking for songs that are as close to the original as possible, and you want to obtain them from people who have invested a lot of time tweaking them, all without implicating PGMusic.
When you spell it out, the legitimate options start getting smaller.

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I thought the major objections would be:
A. The files are too large to e-mail and/or
B. It would be a pain in the neck for forum members to respond to requests for their files.



"B" would probably be more of a problem than "A"

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THANKS for the links to BIAB files on the internet. I've found SOME that are pretty good but most are fairly lame...and massively cumbersome to find in terms of high quality specific songs.


yeah, I haven't been very satisfied with most of the downloaded files either. That's why using BIAB to make my own is so much fun!

My guess is that what you want is possible on a very small scale if you observe peoples comments to see who makes the kind of covers you'd like to use. Then ask for a personal email address so none of the correspondence goes through PGMusic's PM (that could be traceable in a legal audit)

Taking all the risk yourself by using your own email and your own initiative to contact people off-forum, you'd probably have a 50/50 chance of finding somebody who was willing to work with you. They would probably expect to receive an equal number of high quality files from you too, as fair trade.

But, if somebody contacted me by email to ask if I was willing to exchange copyright protected material, I'd probably be paranoid and not do it.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0