It doesn’t take long before a dinner table conversation about “traditional cultural expression” gets into some really heavy stuff. That’s what happened last night, November 12, when I sat at the table in Washington, D.C., with Wend Wendland, head of the Traditional Creativity, Cultural Expressions, and Cultural Heritage Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), who’d come all the way from Geneva to deliver the keynote address at a small invitational conference sponsored by

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