> The text on this page similarly says "An expression may be embodied > in one or more than one manifestation; likewise a manifestation may > embody one or more than one expression." The Manifestation is > described (see, for example p. 20/p. 28 in PDF) as the physical item > itself, not an intellectual thing on the physical item. So the CD as > the physical item has to be the Manifestation, embodying more than > one Expression. in the case of the CD, a manifestation may also belong to a work which is not the work of which the CD is itself a manifestation. for example, in a CD compilation of the works of various artists, each track is a manifestation of a work via some particular expression of that work (live recording; studio session; whatever). the compilation is itself a work in its own right, which might only exist in this manifestation. so "an expression may be embodied in one or more than one manifestation"--the live recording of Hey Jude in 1975 at Wembley Stadium (i'm making this up), which is a particular expression of the work Hey Jude, may be on the Beatles Live! vinyl album of 1977 (that's one manifestation) and the Best Live Tracks of the 70s CD published in 2003 (that's another manifestation). but the Best Live Tracks of the 70s CD is a work in its own right (it has its own publisher, compiler, publication date, place of publication, etc.). "likewise a manifestation may embody one or more than one expression." yes: that's what any CD usually does. it could manifest the expressions of different works by different artists, different works by the same artist (keeping in mind that the album itself is a work, as is any individual song), or different expressions of the same work by the same artist (say, a slow and fast version, a studio and a live version, a version in italian and spanish, or whatever). on a related note, yesterday i burned a CD for daughter #2 with one track one it, Steely Dan's Hey Nineteen, in honor of her nineteenth birthday. this CD isn't a work, but i had to pick which of two manifestations (both were compilations) from which to download the song, hoping that either was a manifestation of the same expression, the original one i heard back in the 70s.