ABSTRACT
‘Ownership’ of creative imagination in the form of rights has been articulated in the legal regimes discussed so far. Nettleford surmised in relation to the Caribbean, but equally applicable to the Americas, that
if the people of the … [region] own nothing else, they certainly own their creative imagination which, viewed in a particular way, is a powerful means of production for much that brings meaning and purpose to human life. And it is the wide variety of products emanating from the free and ample exercise of this creative imagination which signifies to humankind its unique gift of culture. 2
