File:It Takes a Lot to Laugh.ogg

Summary[edit]

"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" by Bob Dylan. This sample was created using Audacity. The sample is about 25 seconds long, which is about 10% of the song's length of 4:09.

Rationale for fair use in Highway 61 Revisited[edit]

1. As part of the educational article Highway 61 Revisited, the sample specifically illustrates the "lazy tempo" of the song, which is described in the article as a "slow, loping, piano-based blues".
2. It is a sample from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording.
3. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
4. It is believed that this sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

Rationale for fair use in "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"[edit]

1. As part of the educational article "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", the sample specifically illustrates the song's "lazy tempo driven by lazy-slap drumming with a shuffling beat and slight emphasis on the offbeat".
2. It is a sample from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording.
3. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
4. It is believed that this sample will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original recording.

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:It_Takes_a_Lot_to_Laugh.ogg true