Playlists & MusicNo. 5645 · The 2026 edition
File:Halloweentheme.ogg
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About this
This is the Wikipedia file description page for Halloweentheme.ogg, a short non-free audio sample of the Halloween theme used under a fair-use rationale on the Halloween (franchise) article. Rather than reviewing a title, it documents the clip's provenance, copyright status, fair-use justification and licensing. Confidence is low because the page is a media file description rather than entertainment coverage.
Facts from the original
- File name is Halloweentheme.ogg, an Ogg Vorbis sound file of about 16 seconds, 170 kbps, 335 KB in size.
- The player displays a duration of 17 seconds (0:17).
- Original copyright is 1978, by Compass International Pictures and John Carpenter (composer).
- Source of the audio clip is a personal copy of The Essential John Carpenter Film Music Collection: Halloween; a 16-second clip was taken from a 2 minute 39 second audio sample.
- The fair use rationale for Halloween (franchise) lists 10 points, including that no free equivalent exists to identify the theme, the clip does not limit the copyright owners' ability to sell their product, it is used only once, and it is significant in identifying the major theme used and critiqued across the film series.
- The licensing section states the sound sample is currently copyrighted and believed to qualify as fair use under United States copyright law for use on English-language Wikipedia hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
- Licensing conditions include that the sample is used for commentary, contributes significantly to the articles where it appears, is short relative to the track and of inferior quality, that no other samples from the same track are currently used on Wikipedia, and that no adequate free alternative exists.
- The file was uploaded at 15:51 on 12 April 2008 by Bignole with dimensions 16 s (335 KB).
- File usage: the following page uses this file — Halloween (franchise).
- Transcode status shows an MP3 at 232 kbps, completed 02:39, 25 February 2026, encode time 2.0 s.
- Metadata lists software used as Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20040629.
- Categories include Wikipedia non-free audio samples and Halloween (franchise) non-free files; hidden categories include noindexed pages and files with no machine-readable description, author or source.
- The page was last edited on 30 April 2020 at 08:00 (UTC).
From the original
The page is the Wikipedia description for an Ogg Vorbis audio file named Halloweentheme.ogg, a 16-second excerpt of the Halloween theme. It states the original copyright is from 1978, held by Compass International Pictures and composer John Carpenter, and that the clip was taken from a personal copy of The Essential John Carpenter Film Music Collection: Halloween, itself a 2 minute 39 second sample. The remainder of the page lays out a ten-point fair-use rationale for the Halloween (franchise) article, a standard fair-use licensing template for copyrighted audio samples, file history, file usage, transcode status, and metadata. The file was uploaded by user Bignole on 12 April 2008 and is only used on the Halloween (franchise) page.
