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1 The traditional live entertainment industry

The theater

• playwrights
• actors and theater directors

The music industry:

• composers and songwriters
• singers and musicians
• orchestras
• concert halls and opera houses

The publishing industry:

• authors
• journalistA journalist is a person who practices journalism that is, who creates reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Origin and scope of the term Ins
• publisherA publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. Major publishing companies include AOL Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown ASCII Baen Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hachette Filipacchi Media Harleqs
• printerThe word printer is used to describe a company that provides commercial printing services, involving typesetting, printing and book-binding. Formerly, it referred to persons who operated printing presses, or ran printing companies. Many of these people wos
• booksellers

2 The 20th century mass media industry

• cinemaA movie theater or cinema is a location, usually a building, for viewing movies. Other colloquial names include the silver screen and the big screen (contrasted with the "small screen" of television). Generally, theaters are not owned by individuals, but
  • film studios
  • movie theaterA movie theater or cinema is a location, usually a building, for viewing movies. Other colloquial names include the silver screen and the big screen (contrasted with the "small screen" of television). Generally, theaters are not owned by individuals, but
• broadcastingNote: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients ("listeners" or "viewers") that belong to a large group. This group may be the public in general, or
  • televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p
  • radio
• record industry
• theme parks
• discotheques

See also:

• Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
• Content is Not King
• Entertainment law
• List of movie-related topics