In July, I wrote about Remix My Lit, the new project by the Creative Commons Australia team.

Well, Remix My Lit has proclaimed August to be “Remix Month”.

There are now 9 new short stories on the Remix My Lit website, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike licences. New authors to contribute include Kim Wilkins, Phillip Neilsen, James Phelan and Danielle Wood.

It’s now up to you to remix these stories, making sure to acknowledge the author, that your remix is not for commercial use, and your new work is available for others to remix.

Email your remixes to [email protected] before 31 August to have your story posted on the website and for the chance to be published in the hard copy anthology alongside your favourite author.

At both the CC Conference and the CCI Conference in June, Amy Barker and Elliott Bledsoe presented the new Creative Commons-based project, Remix my Lit.

Remix My Lit is a Brisbane based, international remixable literature project. The project aims to apply the lessons learned from music and film remixing to literature. The idea is for established writers to provide short stories under a Creative Commons licence that allows remixing, which emerging writers can then remix into new, original stories, also licensed under Creative Commons.

So far, Remix My Lit has stories available for remixing from:

• Emily Maguire;
• Damian McDonald; and
• Cate Kennedy.

Remix My Lit will also be running a live literary remixing event at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival in Federation Square on 30 August.

This is a great opportunity for emerging writers interested in exploring new writing techniques and new legal rights management frameworks. For more information visit the Remix My Lit website.