But many people obtain copies from the library who would not copy by hand, and who might in fact buy a copy of the work if they were unable to receive an inexpensive machine reproduction of it.
Indeed, as we have stressed repeatedly, not only does it separate between the machine and the program, but it separates between two different duplication processes: one for the machine, reproduction, and one for the program, replication.
We would not accept a machine-made reproduction as an adequate substitute for a famous painting; a purist justifiably would say the same about film.
Beneath a veneer of classlessness, the American class reproduction machine operates with ruthless efficiency.
O.M.A. designs and manufactures meticulous, beautiful, and very expensive machines for the reproduction of recorded music.
Intensive indoor farming judged cruel by animal welfare groups, which say the animals are reproduction machines living in dark, dirty and crowded conditions.
In the center of a room, Moriyama manned a photocopying machine, cranking out reproductions of photographs he'd shot in New York in 1971, which then filled the pages of ad-hoc photo books.
In this way, the new machines of mass reproduction and diffusion that fill modern times, from the daguerreotype to the World Wide Web, came not simply as a new or threatening force but also as the fulfillment of a standing American dream.
Most were straightforward photographs of lathes and drill-sharpening machines, probably intended for reproduction in an industrial catalog.
His work, intended to represent the rationalism of the modern age, was functional, aesthetically satisfying, and designed for reproduction by machine-type composition and newer printing technology.
The elite, private institutions may not be faced with the same funding problems as popular, public institutions, but they are vastly unaffordable for the vast majority, serving largely as wealth-reproduction machines or "feeder schools" for the financial industry.
