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died. Seeing a huge money making chance Pro Arts released a regal poster of the King as a commemoration poster. A rival company who had bought all the rights to post-death Elvis memorabilia sued and even though Pro Arts eventually won the Elvis case they lost more than $ 1 million in sales and $
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poster vendor changed everything when the brothers bought 300 anti-war posters. The posters flew off the shelf and sensing an opportunity they moved to Medina changed the name to Pro Arts Inc and became Ohio's number one and only distributor of youth-oriented posters. They employed free lance
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aired. Having prominent nipples displayed for the first time on a poster in the US, it went on to sell millions of copies - unheard of in the poster business. This became known as the "Farrah
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to provide half a million posters inspired Ted to launch a plan to install 2000 poster racks a year in retail racks around the country. Trouble first appeared when
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student artists, either buying the posters outright or paying as little as $ 0.05 royalty fee per poster if the artists kept the rights to the art work.
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