Navigating International Intellectual Property Rights for Teaching and Publishing in the Humanities.

How do VR professionals, museum professionals, and humanities professors navigate the rocky waters of international property rights, copyright, cultural diversity, publishing, and pedagogy in the international IPR environment?  How do we use fair use/fair dealing to the best advantage of pedagogy and publishing to promote cultural diversity, academic freedom and traditional knowledge to support education and equality?

The international property rights environment can be manipulated to suppress cultural diversity. The appropriation of traditional knowledge and the uniqueness of indigenous culture property to mainstream--and copyright-protected--IPR is a process that lends advantage to wealthier, more corporate nations and corporations. Does the manipulation of copyright lessen the impact of and rights of populations that had no access to the Anglo-American copyright mechanism?  Western, Judeo-Christian civilizations have a tradition of consumerism and ownership that differs from cultures based in Indigenous, Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu and other belief systems. How does this impact pedagogy in history, art history, anthropology, and other areas of humanities?