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Cultural industries are based on individuals with creative arts skills....in alliance with managers and technologists....making marketable products....whose economic value lies in their cultural (or ‘intellectual’) properties.

Defined by the UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport as "…those activities which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property", the Creative Industries include:

Advertising
Architecture
Crafts and designer furniture
Fashion clothing
Film, video and other audiovisual production
Graphic design
Educational and leisure software
Live and recorded music
Performing arts and entertainments
Television, radio and internet broadcasting
Visual arts and antiques
Writing and publishing