Hi John
Sorry about my absence, I was off sailing for the weekend so was not at my computer.

Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
If there is no ownership at all maybe someone down the line would claim/establish ownership and turn around and prohibit you from ever using the song?


I think on this point, I suppose there is that risk but it would be totally against the spirit of the thing. (People are always stealing songs!!)

Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Or they decide to make a song you care deeply about the theme for something horrendous.

On this, I don’t think that anybody would become particularly attached to a song..It’s not theirs to become attached to, their name is not on it. So they wouldn’t really care if somebody made something horrendous out of it, (same as you probably wouldn’t care is somebody took a song of mine and did something horrendous with it).

Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Creatives tend to be proud of their work and I think it would be very difficult to create songs in this manner. We do it, at least in part, to be able to step back and say "I did that!"

This is the beauty of this, you can have a small part in something that can become great, you can say, “I helped with that melody or I wrote that lyric”

Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Do you know of anything like this that has been tried?

Not sure yet, will get back to you on this one.

Yes, Craigslist and I love bees all involve(d) collaboration on a massive scale. As far as I understand, with I love Bees, there was no financial reason for people to play at all (correct me it I am wrong. I never played!).

I will check out the FAWM thing.

Last edited by jo131; 08/12/13 02:38 AM.
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