File:Vhyoureallygotme.ogg

Summary

30 second sample from "You Really Got Me", from the Van Halen album, "Van Halen".

Rationale for fair use in article Van Halen

• The audio sample is an example of work from Van Halen's debut release album
• The audio sample is from an album RIAA certified at least to Gold and is intended for wide distribution.
• The audio sample is of lower quality than the original track.
• At 30 seconds, the audio sample is significantly shorter than the main work. Due to its size, the audio sample would not be a perferred substitute to the main track for either entertainment or commercial purposes. Other 30 second samples of this and other songs on the album appear on Amazon.com and iTunes, among other sites, for promotional purposes.
• No free or public domain audio samples have been located to represent this subject.
• The audio sample does not limit the copyright owners' rights to reproduce the song, album, or video in any way.
• The audio sample is being used for informational purposes only.

The audio sample is a copyrighted work. U.S. copyright laws apply to this work. Should a free or public domain sample be located, it should be used in place of this audio sample.

Licensing

	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:Vhyoureallygotme.ogg true
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