Summary

Short, low-quality sound sample of " Bohemian Rhapsody" being performed live at Milton Keynes Bowl by Queen.

• Source: Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
• Artist: Queen
• Songwriter(s): Freddie Mercury
• Producer(s): Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
• Format: Ogg Vorbis, quality 0 (58 kbit/s)
• Length: 26 seconds (less than 10% of original 5:38)
• Copyright: EMI

Fair use for Bohemian Rhapsody

• The clip accompanies a significant section of text about it, which offers critical, academic commentary.
• The audio sample is of substantially lower quality than the original recording.
• At 26 seconds, the audio sample is vastly shorter than the master recording. Due to its size, the audio sample would not be a preferred 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 as alternatives.
• 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 and educational purposes only.
• The purpose of the sample is to demonstrate the manner in which Queen performed the song live. The nature of transition in a live performance compared with that of the studio is important to highlight as it portrays to the reader how Queen modified the track to fit live performances, of which information would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to convey through words alone. As such, an audio sample is necessary to deliver a full understanding.
• 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 (and will) 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:BoRhap-OperatoRockLive.ogg true