File:Thank You Friends (Big Star song - sample).ogg

  1. Home
  2. Wiki
Non-free media information and use rationale true for Big Star (band)
Description

Audio sample from "Thank You Friends" by Big Star

Source

Sample from Third/Sister Lovers album

Article

Big Star (band)

Portion used

18 seconds (of original 3:05)

Low resolution?

Quality reduced to 64 kbit/s

Purpose of use

Describing the song is important to the article Big Star (band) because it is a song on the generally-slow-and-dark third album but unlike the slow and dark songs, has "the undeniable hooks of the earlier albums", as detailed in the article.

Replaceable?

No free alternative for copyrighted audio recording

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Big Star (band)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thank_You_Friends_(Big_Star_song_-_sample).oggtrue
Copyrighted
This is a sound sample from a song, movie, sound effect, or other audio recording that is currently copyrighted. The copyright for it may be owned by the company who made it or the author. For a song, it may also be owned by the person(s) who performed it. It is believed that the use of this work qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law when used on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the U.S. by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, where:
  1. the sample is being used for commentary on the recording in question;
  2. the sample contributes significantly to the encyclopedia articles in which it is used (listed under the heading "File usage" below) in a way that cannot be duplicated by other forms of media;
  3. the sample is short in relation to the duration of the recorded track, and is of inferior quality to the original recording;
  4. no other samples from the same track are currently used in Wikipedia;
  5. there is no adequate free alternative available.

A more detailed fair use rationale should be provided by the user who uploaded this sample. Any other uses of this sample, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. If you are the copyright holder of this sample and you feel that its use here does not fall under "fair use", please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems for information on how to proceed.

To the uploader: If this is a free, non-copyrighted audio recording, please post it to Wikimedia Commons instead.

Audio