Faculty Scholarship
Abstract
This article reviews the underlying societal imperatives reflected in a policy of intangible cultural heritage and the intellectual property-like regimes being developed to protect these interests. It contrasts UNESCO efforts with more narrowly tailored efforts of WIPO and juxtaposes those approaches with the localism model developed under the FCC. While aspects of the WIPO protection efforts focusing on trademark-like and trade secret-like protections benefit the people and cultures these policies hope to serve, additional copyright-like protections will likely do more harm than good. Instead, global public policy will be far better served through emphasis on the FCC's localism attributes of developing human capital to improve the quality of content being produced and encouraging local communities to focus on the content of their own choosing.
Publication Title
ExpressO
NSUWorks Citation
Jon M. Garon,
Rethinking Intangible Cultural Heritage and Expressions of Folklore: A Lesson from the FCC’s Localism Standards
ExpressO
(2015),
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/law_facarticles/277