File:Beatles drive my car.ogg

Short, relatively low-quality sound sample from "Drive My Car" by The Beatles.

• Artist: The Beatles
• Songwriters: Lennon/McCartney
• Producer: George Martin
• Format: Ogg Vorbis, quality 0 (64 kbit/s)
• Length: 13 seconds (<10% of original 2:25)
• Copyright: EMI

This is a sound sample from a commercial recording. Its inclusion here is claimed as fair use because:

• It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.
• It is a sample of less than 30 seconds and no more than 10% of the original recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording or to recreate the original recording.
• It is of a lower quality than the commercially available digital versions of the original recording.
• It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
• 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.

The use of the excerpt is in good faith, and its inclusion enhances the quality of the article "Drive My Car" without reducing the commercial value of the recording from which it was drawn.

This is a sound sample from a commercial recording. Its inclusion here is claimed as fair use because:

• The song is the opening track of the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. A key theme of the article is that the Beatles drew inspiration from the soul music of contemporary artists signed to the Motown and Stax record labels. In the case of "Drive My Car", the article states that the Beatles arranged the song in a similar style to Otis Redding's Stax single "Respect". The text also refers to the band's use of dissonance in the vocal arrangement, a quality that musicologist Walter Everett recognises as "a new jazzy sophistication" in their work at a time when the group's writing and recording practices matured considerably. The article also discusses the sexual innuendo inherent in the message "Baby, you can drive my car" and the female protagonist's aspirations to become a film star, while the male narrator is offered the role of her chauffeur. Both these points are significant in the Beatles' presentation of a female character that author and critic Kenneth Womack views as diverging from the gendered expectations of the band's mid-1960s audience, in that she symbolises an "everywoman" with ego and a clear agenda.
• It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
• 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.
• It is a sample of less than 30 seconds and no more than 10% of the original recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording or to recreate the original recording. It is also of a lower quality than the commercially available digital versions of the original recording.

The use of the excerpt is in good faith, and its inclusion enhances the quality of the album article without reducing the commercial value of the recording from which it was drawn.

	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:Beatles_drive_my_car.ogg true

The use of this file in the article(s) Drive My Car was reviewed by Moe Epsilon on 20:21, 10 February 2008 (UTC) and deemed likely to meet Wikipedia's policy on non-freely licensed content, because it is thought to meet all criteria as described in Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. This file's use on other pages or in different contexts may require additional review at Wikipedia:Files for discussion.