Template:Non-free sheet music

This picture is an excerpt of sheet music from a copyrighted musical composition or arrangement. The original composition and/or arrangement may be owned by the credited writers of the song. If an album-only song, it could also be owned by a person or people credited as writer on an album of which the song is included, if not credited on a certain piece of the album. Copyrights can also be assigned to a music publishing company (can be specialized in song rights management or in releasing of sheet music).

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.

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Please be sure that this tag is only being used for copyrighted sheet music. Do not use it for other purposes, such as for audio samples of copyrighted sound recordings.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

Template:Non-free sheet music

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