An Open Collaborative Production Company

I know that the most of you probably read the title and are think "What the hell is that? An open collaborative production company..... that just sounds confusing." I agree, the words by themselves do make it a little bit confusing. But the actual concept isn't quite as complicated. I am going to try to explain it as well as the founder does, but if you're still having trouble I'm going to put links to the, more than likely, better description. Okay so here we go. The name of this company is hitRECord and the website is hitRECord.org. The way that this website works is someone starts a collaboration. It could be anything, a short film, a song, just a guitar track, a poem, or other things media related. What then happens is the founder, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will pick collaborations that people have started or something that he has started and they will professionally produce it. And it can be anything; a play, a short film, a song, an album, a picture, or any other type of media you can probably think of. Once it is produced and put out there as a money making production, anyone who had a Record, they call it, on the final project gets compensation. They split the proceeds 50/50 with everyone who was involved. I know what some people who are savvy with this sort of thing is probably thinking that once they use it, its theirs. This is not true, you still own it and can sell it anyway you can. It's better explained here: http://www.hitrecord.org/login and here: http://www.hitrecord.org/ Play both videos for a much better explanation than I gave here. 


Before I recommend you join, I want to talk about how genius this website/company truly is. It is a way to get great ideas from anyone who wants to share them without having to worry about copyright and intellectual property laws (unless you upload something that isn't yours which I don't recommend). It is a way for people to work together without having to actually be there. It might not sound so great, but it is.  


That being said, I think there really is no reason not to join this website if you are an artist of some sort. It's great for getting feedback, it's cool to see what other people do with your things once they remix them, and it's a way to be a part of something. Does everyone get to become a part of something they end up producing? No, probably not, but why should that stop you?