CCau's sister project, Remix My Lit, just seems to be going from high profile media event to high profile media event.

After featuring at the Melbourne Writer's Festival, the Brisbane Writer's Festival and the This Is Not Art (TINA) festival in Newcastle, this week RML was the subject of a great episode of ABC Radio National's The Book Show.

The program includes interviews with the RML coordinators, Amy Barker and our own Elliott Bledsoe, as well as RML author Cate Kennedy and remixer Amra Pajalic. They talk about their experiences with the project, the history of adaptive works and what remix means for literature.

I'm sure everyone has been glued to the fabulous new series of ABC's Not Quite Art, and so there's no need for me to post this.

But for those who couldn't get to their TVs - last night's episode focused on remix culture, and had a great section in CC. This included footage from CCau's conference and ccSalon in June, interviews with two of our featured commoners, Yunyu and Chris Denaro (don't miss his exhibition at Metro Arts!), and a great bit from friend of CCau, Mark Pesce.

Oh, and an interview with Lawrence Lessig.

Still from Prototype 24 by Chris Denaro

A fabulous new exhibition that has just launched at Metro Arts here in Brisbane does a great job of showcasing the potential for remixed and remixable art in a free culture environment.

Shift, which showcases the work of CC artist Chris Denaro, focuses on the theme of 'motion' and is the culmination of a 10 month residency in which Chris worked with found material and other local artists.

Those of you who made it to CCau's conference and ccSalon in June will no doubt remember Chris's animations, which were screened on the big screen and plasmas in the venue throughout the day.

Amy Barker, Project Manager of Remix My Lit and Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, ccAustralia are both heading down to Australia's biggest independent arts festival This Is Not Art to take part in a number of events.

On Friday 3 October, find us at:

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING (part of Electrofringe)

ABC Pool Producer (http://pool.org.au), Katie Gauld takes you though a clear and detailed explanation of Creative Commons licensing from a producers point of view.

Speakers: John Jacobs, Producer, ABC Pool, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons Australia
Cost: Free event

LICENCE TO ILL: LEGALITIES, LICENSING, IMPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS! (part of Sound Summit)

Key representatives from APRA, the PPCA and Creative Commons join artists and industry to discuss the latest on artist copyright, licensing, downloading and legislation. In particular, addressing the impact & implications for local music communities.

I can't quite rate the national television appeal of Elliott, but as those who can decipher the flyer to the left can see, I have managed to break the international internet radio market.

And for those having as much difficulty with the Spanish as I am - I'll be interviewed by Colombian-based Radio Fantasmas tomorrow night at 4pm Colombian time, 10pm European.

Radio Fantasmas Project is a spin off of the Fantasmas Collective, a group of video and other artists working out of Colombia. From their website: "The aim of this project is to promote different local artists working with new technologies, presenting interviews and live presentations of their work through the program. . . This, of course, has allowed us to bring about an interesting dialogue between the artists and the public."

Last night Elliott Bledsoe, Creative Commons Australia Project Officer, was a guest on the new ABC2 television program The Hack Half Hour. Loosely modeled on Triple J's Hack radio program, it's a current affairs program which gets a group of young Australians together to talk about different issues. The first episode, on which I was a guest, was called MyFace, and explored the issues of privacy facing social networks, their owners and their users.

Check here to see the program.

Congratulations Amy!

Project Leader of Remix My Lit (and erstwhile CCau staffer) Amy Vought Barker has been awarded the Emerging Writer award at this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for her manuscript Omega Park.

It's a tale of growth and change, focusing on two teenagers living on the Gold Coast. Here's a good review from blogger Literaryminded. A few of the CCau staffers went to a reading today, and it was fabulous - I actually teared up.

Best of all, as part of the award Amy has received a publishing contract, so Omega Park will soon be on the shelves at bookshops across Australia. Watch this space for further news of Amy's sure-to-be-m

Following up the news that the National Innovation Review has recommended that Australian Government should be releasing material under Creative Commons licences - in a speech at the Committee for Melbourne yesterday, Senator Carr gave what sounds like a fairly strong endorsement of this recommendation, saying:

"We are and will remain a net importer of knowledge, so it is in our interest to promote the freest possible flow of information domestically and globally.

The arguments for stepping out first on open access are the same as the arguments for stepping out first on emissions trading – the more willing we are to show leadership on this, we more chance we have of persuading other countries to reciprocate.

And if we want the rest of the world to act, we have to do our bit at home."

You can read the full speech here.

Those interested in open access to public sector information will be excited to see the results of the Australian Federal Government's Review of the National Innovation System, which was just released today.

The report, titled VenturousAustralia was prepared for Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, by consultants Culter and Co, headed up by industry consultant and strategy adviser Dr Terry Cutler.

It places a strong emphasis on open innovation, stating in the introduction:

"Today innovation is understood to involve much more than the transmission of knowledge down the pipeline of production from research to development to application. In the age of the internet, with the opportunities for collaboration which it opens up, open innovation is increasingly important."

Most importantly from an open access point of view is Recommendation 7.8, which is most exciting:

"Australian governments should adopt international standards of open publishing as far as possible. Material released for public information by Australian governments should be released under a creative commons licence."