Today the annual clip value of the NBA Archives is pegged at four hundred million dollars a year.

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Economic hard times for photographers is an old story by now: Professional photographers have been hard hit by the dropping value of their personal archives.

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Archives are the by-products of human activity retained for their long-term historical value.

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