Yahoo News:

Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to ban the appropriation of Indigenous cultures — and to do it quickly. Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines. The meeting takes place as concern grows worldwide about the rights of cultures to control their own materials.

The right of “cultures,” not individuals, not peoples, not states, not companies, but cultures. Who defines a culture, and who represents it? And who gave “rights” to a culture, rights, indeed, to cultures to “control their own materials,” which means, in effect, to police the creative imaginations of those with the wrong background.

Police? Oh yes.

Speaking to the committee Monday, James Anaya, dean of law at the University of Colorado, said the UN’s negotiated document should “obligate states to create effective criminal and civil enforcement procedures to recognize and prevent the non-consensual taking and illegitimate possession, sale and export of traditional cultural expressions.

Translation: the imagination of outsiders is not wanted, and may be punished.