58  Publishing activities

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Includes

Publishing includes the acquisition of copyrights to content (information products) and making this content available to the general public by engaging in (or arranging for) the reproduction and distribution of this content in various forms. Publishers may license rights to others to distribute their content, or they may publish and distribute content they create or own. All the feasible forms of publishing (in print, digital, analogue, or any other form) and self-publishing activities are included in this division, except publishing of motion pictures and music.

This division covers the streaming of content (for example, software and books), by content publishers.

Excludes

Also excluded are obtaining rights from publishers to broadcast and distribute content (see division 60), computer programming activities (see division 62), printing (see group 18.1) and the mass reproduction of recorded media (see class 18.20).

What changed from NACE Rev. 2

Unchanged: NACE Rev. 2 division 58 maps 1:1 to NACE Rev. 2.1 58 with the same heading.

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