...or do they own us? Ideas may be meant to be shared, and are not proprietary. Is it “all mine” or “all ours”? My prediction is that everyone will choose to do everything themselves, and where skills are lacking, software will fill in the gap. Ideas will be both proprietary and shared in the sense that even a quarter note or an eighth notes can have rights associated with it. But it will destry matural heirarchies that have allowed music to evolve in the way that it has. The film Get Back is a window into how ideas get negotiated. Perhaps the best collaborations are mostly about negotiation.