Remix Culture, Creative Commons & a Short Stories Project in Literature

Posted on September 15, 2009
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remix-literature

A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, “Through the Clock’s Workings”: it’s defined as the world’s first remixed and remixable anthology of literature.

That means you have the rights to download, share, reuse the book as you wish – obviously for free – under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (Attribution – Non Commercial – ShareAlike)…

The book is available as a PDF free digital download, or as a hardcopy purchase.

As stated on the official project site,

Remix is all about taking existing material and making something new out of it. It’s a familiar concept in music but extends to all creative content so why isn’t the literati getting amongst it? There’s no reason why writers can’t mix, match, push and pull content to create remixed works. And that’s why remix my lit exists.

And, also:

You don’t have to work with classical literary texts, out of copyright, in your remixes. RML uses the free tools provided by Creative Commons so that you can remix brand new stories from contemporary authors without fear of being sued.

What I find interesting, some of the published artists chose to use cut-up and other Burroughs techniques for their work.

For further informations, check the Remix My Lit website.

Source: Cameron Parkins / Creative Commons blog