Consider, for example, debates over patents, copyrights, indigenous knowledges, genetic codes, and the information in the germplasm of seeds.
A first amendment lawyer with knowledge of copyright law noted that the pastor's lawyers can have YouTube take down relevant videos regardless of how little Hagee footage they include or how long they have been online.
Now, I have literally no knowledge of copyright law and how it applies to like-sounding covers, especially of easily recognizable work, but considering that George Harrison, Michael Bolton, Johnny Cash, and Vanilla Ice haven't managed to avoid large out of court settlements for infringement, it's at the very least frowned upon.
In addition to having this knowledge, a copyright lawyer will also be able to determine your chances of winning and help you decide whether a lawsuit is worthwhile.
Authors' copyrights do not "close off sectors of knowledge," because under United States copyright law, knowledge, ideas and facts cannot be copyrighted.
In response, the activists put on their jackets — covering the offending Passover phrase, even while complaining that it had not, to their knowledge, been copyrighted — and asked if they might stay.
One hurdle on the road to the diffusion of knowledge was the Copyright Term Extension Act, passed in 1998.
The DMCA argument: The DMCA was not intended to cover any media company that has knowledge of the copyright violations.
Yet they make the claim anyway, knowing it's false, presumably because they're hoping nobody involved in this process at the Copyright Office has the technical knowledge to know it's BS.
On an institutional or medium level: since adopting it involves a change in the institutional culture, especially with respect to the evaluation system, the perception of the encyclopedia's validity, the culture of respect towards copyright and the dissemination of knowledge.
Rick Shea, a partner at Lowndes Jordan in Auckland, said there were some differences between New Zealand and U.S. copyright law, in terms of knowledge, that could be an issue.
