Today, we're going to talk about collections and remixes. What's the difference? The analogy that many people like to use is that a collection is like a TV dinner. A collection compiles different works together while keeping them organized as distinct, separate objects. An example of a collection would be a book that compiles openly licensed essays from different sources. When you create a collection, you must provide attribution and licensing information about the individual works in your collection. This gives the public the information they need to understand who created what and which license terms apply to specific content. When you combine material into a collection, you may have a separate copyright of your own that you may license. However, your copyright only extends to the new contributions you made to the work. In a collection, that is the selection and arrangement of the various works in the collection and not the individual works themselves. For example, you can select and arrange pre-existing poems published by others into an anthology, write an introduction, and design a cover for the collection. But the only copyright you can license extends to your arrangement of the poems and your original introduction and cover. The poems are not yours to license. In contrast to collections are remixes, otherwise known as adapted or derivative works. A remix works more like a smoothie. Like a smoothie, a remix takes material from different sources and blends them into a new creation. In a remix, you often can't tell where one work ends and where another one begins. While this flexibility is useful for the new creator, it is still important to provide attribution to the individual parts that went into making the adaptation. When working with copyrighted materials, it's important to make your new derivative from comparably licensed works so that your remix can be legally distributed. Use works of incompatible licenses and you won't be able to distribute what you produce. The Creative Commons has even created a compatibility chart to help you figure out what works you can use together. So to demonstrate this, I'm going to go ahead and publish my first audio compilation album entitled Two Songs I Found on CC Mixedter for the purpose of illustrating what a compilation is. Here is a sample from the first piece. And here's one from the second. CC Mixedter is one of the most robust open music websites in the world. What a lovely compilation album. And now, I'm going to distribute my new remix. Let's have a listen. CC Mixedter is one of the most robust open music websites in the world. Please consider making a donation right now. Whatever amount you can give today will help CC Mixedter flourish tomorrow.