Brand Robins That reminds me of this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AdamDrew/posts/RG7KcLQoPfF?pid=6180021715823381842&oid=115794042160633829509&authkey=CKXYi8aih7_4vwE

So, for context, that head sculpture is a huge piece of (surprisingly nice) corporate art in front of a skyscraper downtown. The building behind it has a relatively-attractive pattern of diamond lattice all the way up, and at the bottom, the diamonds become triangles. During Calgary Stampede, someone painted Blackfoot Confederacy-style tipis in the triangular spaces.

Like, I know the building owners/managers approved the painting, but I have no idea who actually applied the painting. And Blackfoot tipi designs are absolutely cultural/intellectual property, with each design being the holding of one specific family or larger extended family unit (a “clan” more or less).

Did the building management get the permission of the families to depict their cultural symbols? Did they ask? Did the families voluntarily  paint their own symbols? Did the painter research Blackfoot symbols and then paint approximations? Does it matter? Does it make it better or worse if the families were paid to allow it?

So many questions.