The Tug of War Between iTunes and iCloud

I'm still pretty confused about the apparent power struggle between iTunes and iCloud. I would naturally think that iTunes takes care of backing up or at least keeping an index of all my purchased songs, movies, tv shows, podcasts, and even ibooks. And iCloud likewise would take care of backing up my calendar, contacts, any iWork documents I have, and anything else not coverd by iTunes. The point where it starts to get a little muddy is the apps. Who stores them? I can see them in iTunes, but it seems that iCloud will back them up, too. I even hear that iCloud will back up the multimedia stuff just like iTunes has been doing for a while.
Is there anyone that knows what the clear delineation of responsibility as to which service backs up what? Or if not, who can point me in the right direction? I've been googling this for a while, and I've yet to come up with a satisfactory answer.
I would think that I'm not the only one who has scratched their head over this. Thanks in advance for any thoughtful replies on this topic!

armandolopes:
Welcome to the iView Forum. You're in the wrong forum for your problem. This is the iPhoto forum and you want either the iTunes or iPod forum.

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