Crowd creativity is typically associated with peer-production communities focusing on artistic products like animations, video games, and music, but less frequently to Open Source Software (OSS), despite the fact that also developers must be creative to come up with new solutions to their technical challenges. In this paper, we conduct a study to further the understanding of which factors from prior work in both OSS and art communities are predictive of successful collaboration - defined as reuse of previous songs - in three different songwriting communities, namely Songtree, Splice, and ccMixter. The main findings from this study confirm that the success of collaborations is associated with high community status of recognizable authors and low degree of derivativity of songs.

翻译：人群的创造力通常与以动画、视频游戏和音乐等艺术产品为重点的同行生产社区有关,但较少与开放源码软件(OSS)有关,尽管事实上开发者也必须具有创造性,才能找到解决其技术挑战的新办法。 在本文中,我们进行了一项研究,以进一步理解在开放源码软件和艺术社区以前的工作所产生的哪些因素在三个不同的歌曲写作社区(Songtree、Splice和ccMixter)中的成功合作――被界定为对以前歌曲的再利用。 这项研究的主要结论证实,合作的成功与可识别的作者的社区地位高和歌曲的衍生程度低有关。