Week 16 of the 20/20 project and an 'open source songwriting' invitation
Well, here we are at week 16 of the project an this time I've come up with a simple Gospel song with an Americana ballad feel, something I haven't really done before.
I'd like to throw this song open for co-writing, I've got a verse and pre-chorus going on here but not much else at this stage.
I haven't fully articulated what I'm about to share with you before, but this seems like a good opportunity to unveil an idea that I have had for a while.
Open source songwriting. I have this hunch that there is a wealth of creativity that could be tapped into if the the songwriting process could have an 'open source' shared ownership to it.
Here's how I see it working:
I'd like to see a community of songwriters, musicians and lyric writers
One of us has an idea, maybe a lyric and a bit of a melody or perhaps a couple of complete verses but no chorus. We share our embryonic idea and invite others to contribute suggestions. Other members of the community take what's on the table, add their creativity to the original idea and share their version of the song. This process gets repeated as often as necessary until the originator of the idea is happy with the final product. The person who initiates an idea always retains the right to accept or reject other contributions.
So who owns the end product then?
My suggestion is that the person who initiated the project owns at least 50% of the song. The other 50% is equally owned by whatever number of other contributors work was accepted. For example, if the suggestions of three other writers were used in the final song then they each own 16.66% (50% divided by three).
The beauty is that it is potentially win-win for all parties and contributions can be covered by the Creative Commons licensing process which allows free sharing of ideas as long as they are not used for commercial gain with out permission of the owner. This means that ideas contrubuted, whether used or not, still belong to the person who came up with them - yet by contributing them to a project they could create something greater than the sum of it's parts!
I'd like to throw this song open for co-writing, I've got a verse and pre-chorus going on here but not much else at this stage.
I haven't fully articulated what I'm about to share with you before, but this seems like a good opportunity to unveil an idea that I have had for a while.
Open source songwriting. I have this hunch that there is a wealth of creativity that could be tapped into if the the songwriting process could have an 'open source' shared ownership to it.
Here's how I see it working:
I'd like to see a community of songwriters, musicians and lyric writers
One of us has an idea, maybe a lyric and a bit of a melody or perhaps a couple of complete verses but no chorus. We share our embryonic idea and invite others to contribute suggestions. Other members of the community take what's on the table, add their creativity to the original idea and share their version of the song. This process gets repeated as often as necessary until the originator of the idea is happy with the final product. The person who initiates an idea always retains the right to accept or reject other contributions.
So who owns the end product then?
My suggestion is that the person who initiated the project owns at least 50% of the song. The other 50% is equally owned by whatever number of other contributors work was accepted. For example, if the suggestions of three other writers were used in the final song then they each own 16.66% (50% divided by three).
The beauty is that it is potentially win-win for all parties and contributions can be covered by the Creative Commons licensing process which allows free sharing of ideas as long as they are not used for commercial gain with out permission of the owner. This means that ideas contrubuted, whether used or not, still belong to the person who came up with them - yet by contributing them to a project they could create something greater than the sum of it's parts!
Anyhow, I'll write more about this in future - in the meantime here's the song for your comments and/or contributions.
[Song Video is visible on the blog link at www.andyrogersmusic.com]
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