I was reading a discussion about UG and how their money-seeking practices are rather poor, for lack of better words.

Does anyone know if there is an open-source database of tabs and chord charts, or perhaps some kind of aggregator for community contributions?

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    What UG has is years of data and the work of people spotting errors in tabs.

    We can certainly make it happen but it is a ton of work and it needs to be by people with training and or years of music experience willing to donate their work.

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        True, though Open Source when it comes to “art” is a bit weirder. As others have said maybe Crowd Sourced is the right term, and keeping the content as something like creative commons would be the most open way to go.
        I am happy to help with this on the code front but I am not at a skill level where I can write tabs at all.

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        I’m curious if scraping UG and uploading elsewhere is considered piracy. Do they “own” submissions of other people’s music?

        I might just try to make an alt frontend for UG with additional OSS tab submission options. It sounds like a fun project.