It also protects the artists' work by putting them into a file format that is difficult to copy (users must download ThrottleBox Player software to listen to the music files).
"The British Library purchases access to the Times online library" – and so out of copyright Times archive is kept behind a paywall, because it is difficult to copy, or even to access, piles of old newspapers.
But in the US Daraprim is difficult to copy as a generic because its market, though profitable, is tiny and its government approvals have been "grandfathered" in from the 1940s before the rules were tightened dramatically in the 1960s, making the more modern required drug safety tests hard to replicate by a rival.
This means they seek to develop and acquire valuable and rare resources and capabilities that are difficult to copy, and this leads to a sustainable competitive advantage.
This confirmed the resource-based view that firms seek to create a sustainable competitive advantage by controlling valuable and rare resources and capabilities that are difficult to copy.
Mercedes say they will retain the advantage of a controversial design on their car for some time to come because it is difficult to copy.
The building blocks of the Vitruvian Man model applied to entrepreneurship and this innovative model applied to a private art museum result at the same time in a unique concept, which is difficult to copy by competitors but applicable and transferable to other industries and businesses by other entrepreneurs who want to create sustainable value.
When you have strong relationships, trust, and people who love working at your company, it is difficult to copy.
We tabulated the GC content of cDNAs in each in these four categories and observe that false negatives were not enriched in cDNAs of high CG content, as might have been expected if they were difficult to copy-Figure 1C and there was only modest depletion of longer cDNAs.
