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Though the music may not be free, it is considered that the purpose of a limited number of sheet music excerpts
- for critical commentary on the composition of a song or other music in question, on a music theory topic demonstrated in the excerpt for which there is no free alternative to demonstrate the topic, or on an aspect of music performance demonstrated in the excerpt for which there is no free alternative,
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the US by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
would qualify as fair use under US copyright law. Any other uses of this sheet music or an image of it, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement, and on Wikipedia would be at high risk of deletion. See Wikipedia:Fair use for information.
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