File:Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone.ogg

Summary[edit]

• Description: Reduced quality sample from "Like a Rolling Stone"
• Author: Bob Dylan
• Format: Ogg Vorbis, quality 0 (64 kbit/s)
• Length: 30 seconds of sound, which stays below the 10% mark for a 6:05 song.
• Use: Fair use in Like a Rolling Stone as reduced-quality music sample (see Wikipedia:Music samples).
• Copyright: Copyright © 1965, renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music, according to Bob Dylan's Website © "Warner Bros. Inc."; original liner notes report that all tracks from this song's album are published by M. Witmark & Sons (ASCAP), owned by Warner Bros.. This version from Highway 61 Revisited (more info available here), originally released in 1965 on Columbia Records, catalog number CK-9189; number CL 2389 in mono. Recently reissued by Sony Music Distribution (2007), catalog number 88697123142.

Rationale for fair use in Highway 61 Revisited[edit]

1. As part of the educational article Highway 61 Revisited, the sample specifically illustrates the aspect of "Like a Rolling Stone" that is, as critic Michael Gray describes it, revolutionary in its combination of electric guitar licks, organ chords, and Dylan's voice, "at once so young and so snarling... and so cynical".
2. It is a sample from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording.
3. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
4. It is believed that this sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

Rationale for fair use in "Like a Rolling Stone"[edit]

1. As part of the educational article "Like a Rolling Stone", the sample specifically illustrates aspects of "Like a Rolling Stone" that are discussed in the article. These include the "How does it feel?" refrain that emphasizes discussed themes of the song, such as liberation, loss of innocence, and the harshness of experience. The sample also illustrates the sound of the song, which is described in the article as "revolutionary in its combination of electric guitar licks, organ chords, and Dylan's voice, at once young and jeeringly cynical".
2. It is a sample from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording.
3. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
4. It is believed that this sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

Rationale for fair use in Bob Dylan[edit]

1. As part of the educational article Bob Dylan, the sample specifically illustrates the revolutionary aspect of "Like a Rolling Stone" that, as musician Bruce Springsteen describes it, made people feel like "somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind" and changed people's ideas about what a rock song could convey.
2. It is a sample from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording.
3. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
4. It is believed that this sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

Licensing[edit]

	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: the sample is being used for commentary on the recording in question; 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; the sample is short in relation to the duration of the recorded track, and is of inferior quality to the original recording; no other samples from the same track are currently used in Wikipedia; 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_Dylan_-_Like_a_Rolling_Stone.ogg true