1. About UkuTabs
UkuTabs.com is a free ukulele resource (chord arrangements, tablatures, learning guides, tools) that I (Jonas) have created and maintained since March 2012.
Where possible, I contact artists, managers, or labels in advance to ask permission to publish ukulele arrangements of their work. When a rights-holder asks for content to be removed, the request is honoured promptly (see the Takedown section further down).
2. Songs, Lyrics & Arrangements
The statement below applies to all song lyrics, chord progressions, tablatures, song titles, artist names, album titles and artwork, artist biographies, artist images, and everything else related to artists and their songs.
UkuTabs does not own any rights in the underlying musical works, lyrics, or related artist material. The chord arrangements published here are unofficial, fan-made transcriptions presented under fair-use / fair-dealing principles for personal, educational, and non-commercial study only.
UkuTabs respects the intellectual property rights of others and reserves the right of every copyright owner to request removal of their material. UkuTabs does not transcribe from published tablature books or magazines. Arrangements are either created personally by contributors or already freely available online.
Strumming patterns are deliberately not published, since they reproduce a recorded performance. Discussion of how to play a song in the comments is user-generated content and not endorsed by UkuTabs.
Album artwork, artist images, and artist descriptions are retrieved from public sources (such as the Last.fm API and Wikimedia Commons). Lyrics, where shown, are sourced from publicly available lyrics databases. Rights in all of this material remain with their original owners.
3. UkuTabs's Own Content
Content unrelated to third-party songs is © UkuTabs. This includes the UkuTabs name and logo, original written guides and reviews, the chord-diagram engine, the tuner, the chord namer, the scales tool, the site design, the curated archive structure, and original photography. Site published since 2012. You may not copy, redistribute, or build derivative products from this material without prior written permission.
No AI / machine-learning training. Use of UkuTabs content (including chord arrangements, written guides, and structured data) for the training, fine-tuning, or evaluation of machine-learning models, generative AI systems, or competing chord/tab products is expressly not permitted without a separate written licence. This is a reservation of rights under Article 4(3) of EU Directive 2019/790 (the "DSM Directive") on text and data mining.
4. Takedown Requests: Notice and Action
If you are a copyright owner (or an authorised representative) and believe that material on UkuTabs infringes your rights, send a notice to [email protected] or use the contact form. To act quickly, please include:
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The work being infringed Identify the copyrighted work, or provide a representative list if there are several.
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The exact URL(s) on UkuTabs.com Copy them straight from your browser's address bar so I can find the page instantly.
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Why you believe the use is infringing A short explanation is fine.
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Your contact details Full name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
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A good-faith statement Confirm that you're the rights-holder, or authorised to act on their behalf.
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Your signature Electronic or physical, both are accepted.
This procedure satisfies both the EU's "notice and action" expectations under the Digital Services Act and the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 17 U.S.C. § 512). Valid notices are typically actioned within a few business days, often within 24 hours.
Bad-faith or abusive notices (including misrepresentations of ownership) may be reported to the relevant authorities and may give rise to liability under applicable law.
5. Counter-Notice
If you submitted material that was removed and you believe the removal was the result of a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to [email protected] including the same identifying information as above plus a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed in error.
6. User-Submitted Content
UkuTabs accepts user-submitted chord arrangements and comments. Contributors warrant that their submission is their own original work (or that they have permission to share it) and grant UkuTabs a non-exclusive licence to host and display the contribution. Full terms are in the Terms & Conditions. Repeated infringers will be banned and their submissions removed.
7. Trademarks
"UkuTabs" and the UkuTabs logo are trademarks of the operator. Third-party trademarks (artist names, band names, label names, etc.) appear on UkuTabs solely to identify the songs being referenced and remain the property of their respective owners. Their use does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.
8. Credits
Credit where it's due. The following people, projects, and works contributed to UkuTabs in one way or another, whether through original artwork, code shared back to the community, fonts under open licences, or freely-licensed media. If I missed crediting you for something I use, please get in touch and I'll add you right away.
- Liz.STERRY (aka rathawk). The original "Viva La Ukulele" image (a hand holding a ukulele in the air) that has appeared on UkuTabs since March 2012 was inspired by her artwork on DeviantART. Her personal site: lizsterry.com. My version was redrawn with a friendlier vibe and added colour, but a lot of credit is owed to Liz for the original idea.
- T. Leishman. Built the original sticky-chords feature as a Chrome extension and shared the source so it could become a built-in part of UkuTabs. Code on GitHub. Thank you!
- Lobster font by Pablo Impallari (2010). The typeface used in the UkuTabs logo and headings. Released under the SIL Open Font License and freely available at impallari.com.
- Caveat font by Impallari Type. Used for the handwritten polaroid labels on the homepage. Released under the SIL Open Font License.
- Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons contributors. Many of the artist photographs displayed on UkuTabs come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences (CC BY, CC BY-SA) or are in the public domain. Full per-image attribution — photographer, licence, and a link to the original Commons file — is listed on the Photo Credits page. If you are the photographer and want a clearer credit, additional context, or removal, please contact me.
- Last.fm. Album artwork and artist descriptions are retrieved from the public Last.fm endpoints under their terms.
- Open-source foundations. UkuTabs runs on WordPress and uses standard open-source web libraries (jQuery, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, and others) under their respective MIT, Apache, or OFL licences.
9. Disclaimer
UkuTabs is provided "as is", without warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose. While I work hard to keep arrangements accurate and the site running smoothly, I cannot guarantee that any specific chord chart matches the original recording exactly. See the Terms & Conditions for the full disclaimer and limitation of liability. In summary: no monetary compensation is offered for any claim arising from or related to UkuTabs, except where such liability cannot lawfully be excluded.
10. Contact
Legal & copyright matters, and everything else: [email protected] or the contact form.