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MXTabs is a long time web site dedicated to provide guitar/drums/bass tablatures to the musicians community. However, tablatures with no license are illegal, which forced MXTabs to shut down.
But now MXTabs is back and this time with legal tablatures. It is the first tablature web site to offer free and legal tabs.
The process of ‘legalizing’ tablatures can be a little slow however and sometimes you can come across with this:
Currently Not Available
This Guitar tab for “XYZ” is currently not available for display on MXTabs.net. Please check back later as we add additional songs to the site.
Why Isn’t It available?
MXTabs is the first tablature web site to offer free, legal guitar tablature. By legal, we mean that all tablature has gone through a thorough licensing process, usually involving direct licensing with the song’s songwriter, publisher or copyright administrator. As tablature is a derivative of a copyright-protected work, simply displaying tablature for any song without doing due diligence of licensing the song would be a violation both copyright law, as well as a violation of the rights we believe a creator has over his or her own intellectual property.
While attempting to license the tab you are currently trying to view, we have been instructed by the copyright holder that we currently do not have permission to display the tablature for this song. To respect the wishes of the copyright holder, as well as to follow copyright laws, we are unable to currently display the tablature.
Will It Ever Be Available?
Since we are the first tablature community to be attempting to license an entire catalog of tabs, the process of doing so can take some time. We are continually working to gain additional licenses for songs to be displayed on MXTabs, and it is very likely that this tablature will be available in the near future.
What Can I Do To Help?
If you would like to get this song licensed for display on the MXTabs web site, your best approach would be to contact the songwriter, publisher or copyright administrator directly and let them know. Should you decide to do so, we strongly encourage you to do so in a positive way, as your actions are also a representation of the MXTabs community as whole - and our goal is to freely share knowledge while respecting copyright at the same time.
Even though it takes a while to get the licenses I think it’s still worth it, and if you’re a musician you should give it a try. Do it the right way…do it the legal way 
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Best luck for MXTabs!
Take care
