Having lived in Brooklyn for years and been a big fan of Brooklyn writer Jonathan Lethem already, i have found a new found fondness for the scribbler. For the general public, Lethem is charging $1 in a non-exclusive license to anyone who wants to mix/remix/mash/trash-up his stories for their own purposes. Currently, the project is titled "Promiscuous Stories"
He recently did the same cutting and pasting with some other famous authors' work for a piece in Harper's and was so enchanted by it, he decided to encourage it for some of his work. True, you cannot simply take his work, change a few sentences and sell it as your own. His goal is that people will incorporate for film and stage in new ways, but still, I love the idea. It reminds me of a cross between Warhol and hip hop sampling. I am sure that it will yield some interesting results and it could be a new open source version of literary art.
LINK: Lethem's New Project
Originally seen on Boing Boing
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