This suggests many questions surrounding rights and ownership of culture. If an object (informational work like a book, ancient artifact, etc.) is considered t

This suggests many questions surrounding rights and ownership of culture. If an object (informational work like a book, ancient artifact, etc.) is considered to be owned by the public, does a subset of the public have the right to destroy the object? If an object has a cultural association, say of Egypt, is the public ownership of the object only those in Egyptian culture? Do Egyptian-Americans count under this ownership for example? If the object is thousands of years old, is the ownership the heirs of the creator, if it is possible to track the descendants down? Is the ownership those who call nearby locations their home? Is the ownership all citizens of the country the object was created in, or currently resides in? Is the ownership simply the creator and nothing else? Or are ancient artifacts owned equally by all humans on earth? These are not very straightforward questions. It is not a matter of their business and our business when it's difficult to place ownership of a cultural object.