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Harding, Sarah --- "Contemporary ICH and the right to exclude" [2018] ELECD 724; in Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena (eds), "Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 78

Book Title: Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage

Editor(s): Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786434005

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: Contemporary ICH and the right to exclude

Author(s): Harding, Sarah

Number of pages: 27

Abstract/Description:

This chapter focuses on rights in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) by looking at a series of questions. First, what can be said about the parameters and evolving definition of cultural heritage? Second, what is the nature of rights in ICH? Third, do these rights extend to the prohibition of cultural appropriation? And fourth, what particular challenges are presented by more contemporary ICH? The point of this chapter is not to provide complete answers to all these questions; indeed, others have devoted much thought and scholarship to these issues. Rather my intent is to make clear that we need to be careful about casting rights in ICH too broadly. Moral and pragmatic arguments suggest caution in trying to frame cultural rights as possessory and all acts of cultural appropriation as misappropriation. Contemporary ICH provides the perfect backdrop for a deeper look at these questions.