I guess I have sort of what we think the Native American philosophy is to the land, and we may or may not have heard it right..but that they are not "our own"...maybe unless we wrote them and even then if we took extreme legal measures somehow. I think they belong to the community, certainly the community they are about or that created them, but also a worldwide community, as in whoever likes them, barring certain sacred songs, can sing them.

It is like going into a forest in a national campground and saying I am going to make this tree my own, not by sitting under it and photographing it etc., but by trimming the branches and painting happy faces on it or whatever. mg