Wem gehört die Kultur? Die UNESCO zwischen geistigem Eigentum, Folklore und kulturellem Erbe in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren (in: I. Löhr/A. Rehling (Hg.): Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert: Entwürfe für eine globale Welt. München 2014, 135–162) By Isabella Löhr (Loehr)

https://www.academia.edu/15363309/Wem_geh%C3%B6rt_die_Kultur_Die_UNESCO_zwischen_geistigem_Eigentum_Folklore_und_kulturellem_Erbe_in_den_1960er_und_1970er_Jahren_in_I_L%C3%B6hr_A_Rehling_Hg_Global_Commons_im_20_Jahrhundert_Entw%C3%BCrfe_f%C3%BCr_eine_globale_Welt_M%C3%BCnchen_2014_135_162_?email_work_card=title&li=0 The chapter probes into ongoing controversies about the marketability of intangible cultural heritage by submitting its codification in international law since the late 1960s to a critical historical reading. The article posits that the relevant legal stipulations were a by-product of a fundamental crisis in which intellectual property rights got in the way of decolonisation. Increasing demands of the new states to decolonise intellectual property by developing new legal tools that could acknowledge the characteristics of non-Western culture shifted attention to what then was called folklore and has become known as intangible cultural heritage only since the 1990s. Yet as the integration of folklore into international law was carried out by UNESCO and the World Intellectual Property Organization, two institutions which had been dealing with intellectual property rights for decades, attempts to conceptualise intangible cultural heritage as mankind’s common heritage were relegated to the background in favour of thinking in terms of property rights and rights of use.