Summary

This is an audio sample of Tool's song "Lateralus".

Fair use rationale for Tool (band)

It is believed that publishing part of the song in the article named above does fall under fair use since:

• it is used for informational purposes only, to illustrate the relation of the song lyrics to a certain arrangement of a part of a Fibonacci sequence, which is mentioned in the article, as part of the commentary on the band's work.
• it is of drastically reduced quality and length, rendering it useless for any commercial use.
• the lyrics have been made widely available to the public by the copyright owners themselves, on their website: http://www.toolband.com/album/lyrics/lateralus.html

Fair use rationale for Lateralus (song)

I, User:Johnnyw, believe that publishing part of the song in the article named above does fall under fair use since:

• it is used for informational purposes only, to illustrate the relation of the song lyrics to a certain arrangement of a part of a Fibonacci sequence, which is mentioned in the article Lateralus, as part of the commentary on the band's work.
• it is of drastically reduced quality and length, rendering it useless for any commercial use.
• the lyrics have been made widely available to the public by the copyright owners themselves, on their website: http://www.toolband.com/album/lyrics/lateralus.html

Source

Artist: Tool Song: "Lateralus" Original length: 9min 25s Format: Full quality .wav Album: Lateralus Year: 2001 Label: Volcano Records

Sample

Length: 47s

• cut and processed (fade-out) with Audacity

Bit-rate: avg 57 kbit/s

• converted to much inferior quality, avg. 57 kbit/s, using oggenc

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:Tool_-_Lateralus_-_09_-_Lateralus_sample.ogg true
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