Title: Who owns the past? : cultural policy, cultural property, and the law /
Authors: Fitz Gibbon, Kate.; American Council for Cultural Policy.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press in association with American Council for Cultural Policy,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Collectors and collecting History.; Cultural property Protection International cooperation.; Intellectual property.; Material culture.; Museums Acquisitions; Antiquities Collection and preservation; Art and state.; Culture and law.; Cultural policy.
Abstract: "Who Owns the Past? challenges all who care about the arts to work together toward policies that consider traditional American interests in securing cultural resources and respect international concerns over loss of heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The laws -- Collecting and the trade -- Art in peril -- The universal museum.