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If you search for Elvis Presley in Wikipedia, you will find a lot of text and a few pictures that have been cleared for distribution. But you will find no music and no film clips, due to copyright restrictions. What we think of as our common cultural heritage is not “ours” at all.
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The "cultural heritage" is ours to identify with. The individual pieces of art, music, literature, sculpture etc etc etc are not, and never were, "ours" in a possessional sense of the word.
Just like when supporters of a football club identify as a group by saying "our team" the actual team does not belong to them.