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Doctor_Who_theme_excerpt.ogg‎ (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 13s, 104kbps)

1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Source
4 Fair use

[edit] Summary

Doctor Who theme excerpt.

[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.

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[edit] Source

A 13-second excerpt from the long version of the theme music to the BBC TV series: Doctor Who, created from an mp3 obtained from the web some years ago. Copyright asumed to be BBC Television.

[edit] Fair use

Used to illustrate the key bar of the theme in the articles Doctor Who, Doctor Who theme music and Delia Derbyshire. No free alternative exists as it has never been released under a free licence.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:31, 26 August 2007	13s (160 KB)	Mark (Talk \| contribs)	(All of the versions were full tracks, it seems. Uploading a replacement 12-second excerpt of the original 1965 theme as composed by Ron Grainer.)
	15:23, 26 August 2007	1m2s (697 KB)	Mark (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to version as of 14:24, 20 February 2006 - new version(s) were the full track, not excerpts, thus not complying with fair use declaration)
	05:50, 12 May 2006	1m0s (304 KB)	Timelord726 (Talk \| contribs)	(A slightly better version of the original theme used here, but this time at reduced quality.)
	05:46, 12 May 2006	1m0s (955 KB)	Timelord726 (Talk \| contribs)	(An excerpt from the very original theme music to Doctor Who, created in 1963 by Delia Derbyshire, Brain Hodgson, and Ron Grainer, and released in 1964.)
	14:24, 20 February 2006	1m2s (697 KB)	Ian Dunster (Talk \| contribs)	(Doctor Who theme excerpt)