  Online communities have been able to develop large, open-source software
(OSS) projects like Linux and Firefox throughout the successful collaborations
carried out by their members over the Internet. However, online communities
also involve creative arts domains such as animation, video games, and music.
Despite their growing popularity, the factors that lead to successful
collaborations in these communities are not entirely understood. In this paper,
we present a study on creative collaboration in a music community where authors
write songs together by 'overdubbing,' that is, by mixing a new track with an
existing audio recording. We analyzed the relationship between song- and
author-related measures and the likelihood of a song being overdubbed. We found
that recent songs, as well as songs with many reactions, are more likely to be
overdubbed; authors with a high status in the community and a recognizable
identity write songs that the community tends to build upon.

Human-Computer Interaction;Social and Information Networks