When I left New York for two weeks to visit bureaus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where we assume that communications may be monitored, I was not to be copied on message traffic about the project.

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Although Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, finds the Venezuelan state-funded, national system of youth orchestras admirable, he does not believe the model can be identically copied in the United States.

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That's scarcely more tangible than a man's thoughts--a thing to be copied and shared, not sold.

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Apple then had to clarify matters so that consumers would be aware that Samsung had not copied.

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But all had to be copied by scribes, not machines.

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While analysts would argue that everything can be copied, that is not entirely true. iTunes is by far the largest and most successful online music store in the world.

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So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.

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Since the American computer-maker produces no musical content of its own, unlike Sony, it does not find itself torn between protecting its copyright and making gadgets that allow music to be copied and swapped.

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Since I may not be able to print or even cut and paste from the document, I would have lost the information unless I copied it by hand.

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