Fan bait, lazy cash grab, legit musical archive, or all three? All such claims are easy to levy at compilation albums, though they do serve as a good gateway to get people into a band's wider ...

A good Vine compilation on YouTube is a thing of beauty, but it’s easy to miss how much work goes into the great ones. It was easy to snap myself out of a funk last night just by watching a ...

Everybody loves the movies, and there is no better way to celebrate the greatest films, actors and movie quotes of all time than with a good old-fashioned movie compilation. YouTube is teeming with ...

Miriam Stiel and Katherine McMahon of Allens Arthur Robinson look at two recent decisions that have called into question the scope of copyright protection Before the High Court of Australia's decision ...

The days of record collecting before the internet were days when you knew what you knew and you had what you had. Music spread from dealer to dealer by way of tapes—or it didn’t, in the case of ...

From mixtapes handed to crushes to bootleg CDs burned for car journeys to landmark official releases, the compilation is an intimate musical format. They’re an absorbing insight into the tastes of the ...

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Before the days when dance-music fans could experience unlimited recorded sets on SoundCloud, Mixify and YouTube— the mix CD reigned supreme. From the late 80s through the 90s, dance junkies heard ...

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