Then the U.S. music publisher Lou Levy asked Mr. Gimbel to devise an English cover.

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At the time McCartney and writing partner John Lennon wrote their songs, they retained only a portion of the rights in the publishing company created by the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and London music publisher Dick James. (The company was called Northern Songs, a nod to the Beatles' Liverpudlian roots.) The company went public in 1965.

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So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.

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Spotify is the current poster child for on-demand streaming but it is worth noting that Vevo, an on-demand music video site, is the top video publisher on the web behind YouTube and Facebook.

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In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.

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Denise is a hurricane outreach organizer for a battered women's program in Baton Rouge, and Leo is editor and publisher of antigravitymagazine.com, a Web magazine about New Orleans' music and culture.

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John Wiley and Sons, the textbook publisher suing Kirtsaeng, has its share of backers as well, including the movie and music industries, software companies, and other book publishers.

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