File:Halloweentheme.ogg

Summary[edit]

Original copyright 1978, by Compass International Pictures and John Carpenter (composer)

• Source of audio clip: Personal copy of The Essential John Carpenter Film Music Collection: Halloween; a 16 second clip was taken from a 2 minutes and 39 seconds audio sample.

Fair use rationale for Halloween (franchise)[edit]

1. No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the musical theme that has become associated with the franchise, as the music was copyrighted in 1978.
2. The audio clip does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
3. The audio clip is only used once.
4. The audio clip has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
5. The audio clip meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The audio clip meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The audio clip is used in the articles wiki-linked in the section title.
8. The audio clip is significant in identifying the major theme that has been used, and critiqued, for the entire film series.
9. The audio clip is used in the article namespace.
10. The audio clip has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.

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:Halloweentheme.ogg true