... pop acts, and high profiles for heavy metal and new age music highlighted 1987. Business boomed as sales of compact disk (CD) players rose rapidly and record companies issued many new albums and reissued old albums on CD. New technology included CD video, that blends video and high-quality digital audio, and super-VHS video, which gets very good video quality thanks to ... the growing list of major labels revitalizing their jazz catalogs. Industry veteran Mel Fuhrman acquired tapes of unreleased music by jazz great Duke Ellington and began issuing a series of 10 CD's. Some of the best-s...

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... and of been proud of who they are and where they came from. Bibliography: - "Civil War" Gloriel Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. CD Room. Gloriel Electronic Publishing inc. - "Free Verse" Gloriel Multimedia Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. CD Room. Gloriel Electronic Publishing inc. - Jefferson. "Whitman Biography". Virginia: ( N:E). Online. 20 January 2000. 29 pages. - Kunitz, Stanley ... J., Howard Haycraft. American Authors 1600-1900. A Biographical dictionary of American Literature. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company. 1938. P. 801- 810. - "Romanticism". Encarta Encyclopedia. 1998 ed. CD Room...

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... been consumed in a multitude of ways. The consumption of popular music may entail purchasing recorded music on vinyl, cassette tape, or compact disc (CD); listening to the radio; watching music videos on television channels, such as MTV; home tape/CD recording; and more recently, downloading music from the Internet. Simultaneously, people may read the music press, go clubbing, or see bands perform ... ...

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... prove they didn't belong on the list. A federal appeals court upheld the decision. (USA) Lawyers for two offenders argue the Internet list has a stigmatizing effect. In California, the state issued a CD-ROM that listed the names and addresses of offenders but in that case there is a charge for obtaining the information. By assigning a cost to the information, California is making it ... ." (Internet) Sex offenders have become the target of vigilantes as a direct result of Megan's Law. For instance a van owned by a convicted child molester near Los Angeles was firebombed after the CD-ROM ...

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... with the weekend newspapers. However, Radio Drama has enjoyed a brief resurgence in the consumer market due, for the most part, to the BBC collection of Radio 4 productions being released on CD and cassette, with new titles being added to the catalogue on a fairly regular basis, be they classics from years past or recent radio plays that nobody ever new about until ... off ideas, but slowly branching to new ideas) that are scripted, produced, performed and are in all ways indistinguishable from that style of Radio Drama, but are released directly to CD where they reach a wider audience ...

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... to a learner's innate, habitual, and preferred ways of absorbing, processing and retaining information or skills. Interactive audio with the addition of audio capabilities to personal computers via audio boards or CD-ROM with microphones for input and headphones for output, the audio-assisted computer is a virtual mini-media unit. With the hookup of a special tape recorder to the computer, interactive audio ... these latter options are available on an interactive compact disc program. Given that language is an expression of culture, cultural aspects of the video segments can be highligh...

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... problem comes in when African-Americans can say whatever they please, and the worst thing that the law will do to them is maybe put a parental advisory sticker on their CD, or rate their movie "R". Many people may believe that African-Americans deserve to speak as they please about whites after the treatment they received in the past. This is not ... ...

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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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... software. The majority of copying and fraud involve software, like CDs, tapes, and computer programs, but there also is a huge market for clothing items like jeans, shirts, and sunglasses. Roth 2 CD piracy is currently the fastest-growing counterfeiting threat, with China and Bulgaria suspected as the largest of the counterfeiters, according to Mike Edwards of the International Federation of the Phonographic ... ...

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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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... in February of 2002. They are the 17th edition of Air Jordans. Each pair comes in its own shimmering, silvery, metallic briefcase rather than a shoe box and have an accompanying CD. Whenever Nike releases a new shoe design it experiences temporary success because the competition will release a close substitute to the shoe ("Nike Brand Marketing,"n.d.). Even though its competitors gain by this ... ...

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