Hi All

Thanks all for the responses. I appreciate you all taking the time to comment.

I think on the FAWN and JPfolks collaborations there is always an element of “ownership” on the songs that are produced (correct me if I am wrong here please).

Don, “collaboration central” does sound like a bit like what I am suggesting but my question is was there any underlying notion of “ownership” of the song or the ideas? Because if this is so, there is almost certainly going to be broken friendships about the direction a certain idea takes.

Mario, what you say about a “free for all musical experience” is more what I am envisaging.

Scott, the intention is not to “make it big” but just the opposite ie not to make anything at all (financially speaking) but to enrich ourselves through the experience.

Josie; on the “too many cooks spoil the broth”, the book I am talking about tries to disprove this with loads of examples where mass collaboration has wielded extraordinary results (such as Linux, Craigslist and I Love Bees). It proposes that we are moving away for the top down authoritarian model like MacDonalds to a more egalitarian system.

John; I have not had a really good look around Creative Commons but it seems to talk about a system to license your work. I am saying that the work doesn't get licensed and there is no such thing as "your work". It is everybody's.

(PS. I hope I don’t come across as defensive in this reply. Just really wanted to gauge if people would be interested in something like this)

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