Remix Culture and the Stories We Share

For artists and creators, the public domain is an invitation to play with culture—to take something familiar and reinterpret it, turn it upside down, make it strange, make it funny, or make it their own.

This live recording of the Future Knowledge podcast brings together cartoonist Alec Robbins, creator of Mr. Boop, and librarian and author Liz Gotauco of F*cked Up Fairy Tales for a conversation about remixing the culture we share with copyright expert Meredith Rose of Public Knowledge. Together, we’ll explore what happens when creators get their hands on familiar cultural touchstones, and what the public domain makes possible.

Why do certain characters and stories invite us to reinvent them? Where does remix become transformation? What can we learn about culture by looking at the ways artists reinterpret it? And what does it mean for all of us when the stories we inherit become material for new ones?

Come for Betty Boop and twisted German folktales. Stay for the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising ways we remake the culture we share.