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.

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:

If you haven't yet done so, please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
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.