Cultural Appropriation and Intellectual Property

This excellent perspective on cultural appropriation was offered by David Policar in a public post on Facebook. I thought it was worth sharing.

I continue to be amazed that people who understand perfectly well the difference between voluntary exchanges of information between peers, on the one hand, and involuntary information transfers across power imbalances, on the other, when it comes to information produced by individuals (e.g., the difference between my quoting something you’ve published...