Last year 11, 000 scientists signed a pledge stating that they would publish only in journals that "grant unrestricted free distribution rights" to original research they have published.

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Starz Distribution's home video, digital media and worldwide distribution business units distribute original programming content produced by Starz, as well as entertainment content for itself and third parties.

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And Paramount Home Media Distribution are finally bringing the original trilogy of Indiana Jones films to Blu-ray.

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Apple Corps' lawyer Geoffrey Vos pointed back to the original agreement, saying that Apple Computer's music distribution business "was flatly contradictory" to its terms.

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When Guidant and Cook entered into the distribution agreement, Boston Scientific challenged it, saying that violated the original agreement.

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Dwight is co-founder, chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second.

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Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download.

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On the other hand, the remakes that do work well tend to be the ones you do not even know are remakes, where for some reason, the original concept was great, but either its execution, or more commonly its distribution, failed, and the public forgot they exist.

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