... responsibilities, the distribution division takes control and begins to put this intellectual, funded, copyrighted, recorded, printed, promoted music into the hands of consumers. The distribution and sales division distributes the CD's, tapes, sheet music, T-shirts, and other merchandise to wholesalers and retailers of the products. These vendors buy in large quantities at wholesale prices. Another distributor of sheet music known as ... full-line publishing firms industry. Some companies may specialize in a certain areas, but all are necessary to make money in the end. When we see a pi...

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... advances led to an enormous increase of piracy, where it became virtually impossible to prevent copyright thefts. Nearly anyone can photocopy a book using photocopying machines, or duplicate a computer program with a CD burner, or even record a television show using a VCR. For example, the feature film Star Wars was available on videotapes in Britain days before the first showing of the film, which ... ...

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... case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission. What types of creative work does copyright protect? Copyright protects works such as poetry, movies, CD-ROMs, video games, videos, plays, paintings, sheet music, recorded music performances, novels, software code, sculptures, photographs, choreography and architectural designs. To qualify for copyright protection, a work must be "fixed in ... ...

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