Image:Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up.ogg

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Rick_Astley_-_Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up.ogg‎ (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 19s, 66kbps)

[edit] Summary

Fair use sample of song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley for Never Gonna Give You Up. Based on digital track from album Whenever You Need Somebody.

[edit] Licensing

This is a sample from a copyrighted audio recording. 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 United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, where:

The sample is being used for commentary on the recording in question.
It contributes significantly to the encyclopedia articles it is used in (listed under the heading "File links" below) in a way that cannot be duplicated by other forms of media.
The sample is short in relation to the duration of the recorded track and is of an inferior quality to the original recording.
No other samples from the same track are used in Wikipedia.
There is no adequate free alternative available.

A more detailed fair use rationale may be provided by the user who uploaded this recording. Any other uses of this recording, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. If you are the copyright holder of this recording 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: please add a detailed fair use rationale as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Never Gonna Give You Up

Same reasons as in template:

Used to illustrate the specific song being sampled;
There is no free alternative, as even a recording by another artist would still require permission to use the music;
It's much shorter and of inferior quality;
No other samples from the same track exist.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:48, 6 March 2007	19s (152 KB)	Dcoetzee (Talk \| contribs)	(New shorter sample per Wikipedia:Music_samples, sampling bridge, part of chorus, and part of a verse)