Separating one iTunes account into 3 different accounts

I have both of my kids iPods (and my iPhone) all sharing one iTunes account.  Is there a way to move them to their own iTunes account without losing all the apps and music they have on their devices?

Any music purchased after about 2009 can be played on any computer with the file on it.  That's the easy part.  Oh, I don't know if syncing present problems but I'm guessing it won't since people often have multiple Store accounts and shared music on family computers.
Movies require the computer be authorized to the account used to purchase the content.  This is where you will have to come to an agreement not to change the password or de-authorize each other's computers for that account (there could be a scenario where this is done unintenionally but it shouldn't normally arise unless you have lots and lots of computers).
One  tip is to make sure you always have all content present on a local drive.  Do not put yourself in a position to ever need to re-download media from the Store.  I am presuming you will have your own account after this and the main problem people seem to have with using multiple Store accounts on a computer is being prevented from changing accconts more than once every 90 days for the purpose of re-downloading.  Otherwise families often have multiple AppleID users on a single computer with shared media.
You may have to ease up on doing anything such as using iTunes Match or iCloud downloads with this particular account, but we're talking trying to rescue what you can.

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