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From ETW v Jireh Publishing, 76 F.3d 743 (6th Cir. 1996) The protection of the First Amendment is not limited to written or spoken words, but includes other mediums of expression, including music, pictures, films, photographs, paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, and sculptures. See Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, 515 U.S. 557, 569 (1995)("[T]he Constitution looks beyond written or spoken words as mediums of expression."); Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U.S. 781, 790 (1989) ("Music, as a form of expression and communication, is protected under the First Amendment."); Zacchini v. Scripts-Howard Broadcasting Co., 433 U.S. 562, 578 (1977)("There is no doubt that entertainment, as well as news, enjoys First Amendment protection."); Kaplan v. California, 413 U.S. 115, 119-120 (1973)("[P]ictures, films, paintings, drawings, and engravings ... have First Amendment protection[.]"); Bery v. City of New York, 97 F.3d 689, 695 (2nd Cir. 1996)("[V]isual art is as wide ranging in its depiction of ideas, concepts and emotions as any book, treatise, pamphlet or other writing, and is similarly entitled to full First Amendment protection."). Speech is protected even though it is carried in a form that is sold for profit. See Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 150 (1959) ("It is of course no matter that the dissemination [of books and other forms of the printed word] takes place under commercial auspices."); see also Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)(paid advertisement); Time, Inc. v. Hill, 385 U.S. 374, 397 (1967) ("'That books, newspapers, and magazines are published and sold for profit does not prevent them from being a form of expression whose liberty is safeguarded by the First Amendment.'")(quoting Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495, 501-502) (1952)); New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) (solicitation to pay or contribute money). The fact that expressive materials are sold does not diminish the degree of protection to which they are entitled under the First Amendment. City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publ'g Co., 486 U.S. 750, 756 n.5 (1988). Publishers disseminating the work of others who create expressive materials also come wholly within the protective shield of the First Amendment. See, e.g., Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Bd., 502 U.S. 105, 116 (1991)(both the author and the publishing house are "speakers" for purposes of the First Amendment); Sullivan, 376 U.S. at 286-88 (finding New York Times fully protected by the First Amendment for publishing a paid editorial advertisement). See also First Nat'l Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765, 782 (1978).