"Fixing" it so we get the Stuff

The "Chasing Aphrodite" blog has the right attitude to the April 10th seminar of US lawyers and US lawyers on "Accountability, Transparency, and Legal Certainty" in "U.S. Cultural Property Policy":

Here is the collecting community's proposal to "fix" the Cultural Property Implementation Act and other American...

It is quite telling, isn't it, from a European perspective that they talk specifically of U.S. Cultural Property Policy, rather than looking at the "art" involved in terms of a broader cultural policy. This fragmentation of vision surely is not helping.

Another collectors' idea:

"Liability under criminal law should be limited to actual theft of provenanced or site-specific objects"