  In this work, we extensively study the problem of broadcasting of
entanglement as state dependent versus state independent cloners. We start by
re-conceptualizing the idea of state dependent quantum cloning machine
(SD-QCM), and in that process, we introduce different types of SD-QCMs, namely,
orthogonal and non-orthogonal cloners. We derive the conditions for which the
fidelity of these cloners will become independent of the input state. We note
that such a construction allows us to maximize the cloning fidelity at the cost
of having partial information of the input state. In the discussion on
broadcasting of entanglement, we start with a general two qubit state as our
resource and later we consider a specific example of Bell diagonal state. We
apply both state dependent and state independent cloners (orthogonal and
non-orthogonal), locally and non locally, on input resource state and obtain a
range for broadcasting of entanglement in terms of the input state parameters.
Our results highlight several instances where the state dependent cloners
outperform their state independent counterparts in broadcasting entanglement.
Our study provides a comparative perspective on the broadcasting of
entanglement via cloning in two qubit scenario, when we have some knowledge of
the resource ensemble versus a situation when we have no such information.
