  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.
