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Wilhelm.ogg‎ (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 1.0s, 190kbps)

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Wilhelm scream" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
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qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

Fair use rationale:

The clip is extremely short and of poor quality. The scream is also ubiquitous in films as a sound effect, and its use here in isolation for demonstration does not detract from its original use in film.
It would be impossible to replace the with a known-free alternative, as the Wilhelm scream is sui generis. NTK 01:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)