**6. Conclusions**

Cultural appropriation is a complex phenomenon. Lawyers who try to approach the issue should contextualize the problem from a historical perspective, trying to apply the necessary tools to cope with all the di fferent facets that the phenomenon presents.

Indigenous people should have the possibility to access conventional intellectual property claims whenever these can allow a fair compensation for cultural appropriation.

Nevertheless, intellectual Property is not always the answer. The needs of indigenous people have to be understood and supported, taking into account their own perspective that might not coincide with Western lawyers' before imposing new laws that are oriented to defining property for profit over creative practices that are oriented to multiple social values and local livelihood goals (Aragon 2012).

That is why, next to IP tools, other solutions should be envisaged that allow folklore not only to be protected, but also to develop according to that natural and ancestral flow, which passes from generation to generation, helping to build an important identity, but at the same time guaranteeing the possibility of adapting to the survival needs of that culture.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
