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  "identifier": "512250",
  "name": "Record Production and Distribution",
  "description": "This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in record production and/or releasing, promoting, and distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers, or directly to the public.  These establishments contract with artists, arrange and finance the production of original master recordings, and/or produce master recordings themselves, such as digital music and compact discs.  Establishments in this industry hold the copyright to the master recording, or obtain reproduction and distribution rights to master recordings produced by others, and derive most of their revenues from the sales, leasing, licensing, or distribution of master recordings.",
  "url": "https://entitycodes.org/naics/512250/",
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      "@type": "PropertyValue",
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      "value": 888,
      "description": "Census County Business Patterns 2023"
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      "title": "Phonograph Records and Prerecorded Audio Tapes and Disks",
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