I have been reading a very interesting book called “We think” by Charles Leadbeater . The thesis of his book is that there is great power in creativity and innovation when a whole bunch of people contribute to something creative WITHOUT any intention of making money out of it. The best example he gives in his book is Wikipedia where you have thousands of volunteers contributing to something for the love of it and for recognition from their peers…not for money. He even goes on to say that this type of creativity will be the driving force of the century. It is an interesting book and worth a read.

The book got me thinking about song writing. This is a one huge creative and innovative pursuit, isn’t it? Say we started a wiki were anybody could post song ideas, song titles, licks, melodies or even just one sentence. Anything. People could add and build and change and we could eventually end up with full songs. Of course we would probably end up with many songs that are not finished, (and who would be able to say when a song is finished?) BUT the idea is that whatever is posted here is not copyrightable. It is public domain. Anybody can take the ideas and record and sell them or perform them without paying any royalties. But, they cannot copyright anything about song. This would apply equally to people who contributed to the ideas and songs and to people who had no input whatsoever. ( I can use Wikipedia even though I have never contributed to it).

I would be interested in finding out if this PG Music community would be interested in starting something like this? I feel like we already have a great community that is ideal to plant the seed. (Of course it would not be restrictive in any way and anybody can participate or use the ideas, whether they are PG Music users or not). Let me know your thoughts…..

LyricLab – Where words become music https://www.lyriclab.net/