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Outside of lawyers, what communities do you think should have an "understanding" of intellectual property law, and to what degree? Or, maybe the fact that it takes a lawyer to truly understand it indicates that the complexity of applicable laws and regulations isn't beneficial to the communities they're ostensibly meant to protect?

>>sidlls+(OP)
Communities that generate and/or profit off of "intellectual property" ought to have a rudimentary understanding of the laws involved. Doubly so if they're protesting what they see as violations of those laws. It honestly does not take a lawyer to understand the distinctions at play here.

>>sidlls+(OP)
People that complain very vocally about some issue, should at least bother to research what they are talking about...

>>sidlls+(OP)
I fully expect self called artist to know the law that protect their own means of living

>>sidlls+(OP)
When I took my graphic design class in college, there was a big chunk about copyright and trademark. We had to be very cautious about images we were using and the difference between the two was drilled into our heads.