People Commonly Create Art when they Hit Record!

What would it be like if four hundred people collaborated on a project?
Would it be creative or a creative mess?
Who owns the creative effort?
If I record something with a video camera and then you record me and then someone else records us and then another person adds music and someone else remixes that and adds more instruments to the original soundtrack.  Who owns the copyright?  Oh and let's say that this creative effort is then shown at a live show and it is then recorded by a few hundred people while it is shown and then that is broadcast on the Internet.  Who owns the copyright?

It is good to step away from teaching, being a student and just relax.  Sometimes I read and sometimes I watch late night talk shows.  I preview Craig Ferguson but I also scan other shows to see who the guests are.   I am not a fan of Jimmy Fallon but his show does have good guests.   Joseph Gordon-Levitt looked like an interesting guest.  He is in a new movie about a cancer survivor called 50/50.  I began watching the interview but I was blown away by another project that Gordon-Levitt has been doing for about the last 5 years called hitRECord.  It is a collaborative creative process involving many artists which combines the efforts of anyone who wants to join.  They briefly mention the ownership issue in the interview.  Jimmy says, "... you encourage piracy..." Gordon-Levitt response, "...at this point we say please turn on all recording devices..."
To Gordon-Levitt copyright does not seem to matter in these projects.  Here is the interview.  They start talking about hitRECord at the 0:46 and ends at 2:52.
This is creative commons to the max!

  http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/joseph-gordon-levitt-9-27-11/1358850

Photo from hiRECord website
http://hitrecord.org/welcome/two

Background:Joseph Gordon-Levitt explains how hitRECord works to Carson Daly. Example mentioned in the Carson Daly interview.Morgan Morgans Date With Destiny video
Bibliography
Shoemaker, M. (Producer). (2011, September 27). Joseph Gordon-Levitt (9/27/11) Retrieved fromhttp://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/joseph-gordon-levitt-9-27-11/1358850