Who Owns the Story?Art, Authorship, and Cultural Power

Who has the right to tell a story and what does it mean to call a story your own?

Across theater, literature, film, and other creative forms, artists have always borrowed, adapted, reinterpreted, and responded to the stories that came before them. But questions of authorship become more complicated when stories cross cultures, communities, identities, and, increasingly, the boundaries between human creativity and emerging technology. This conversation explores the relationship between creative freedom and responsibility, asking how artists navigate influence, adaptation, cultural exchange, appropriation, and AI and how our ideas about who gets to create, tell, and transform stories are changing.