[WikiEN-l] Seriously, on BJAODN

[John Lee]

On 6/4/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> How can you possibly have knowledge of infringing activity when you
> don't know that the material is infringing?  The former is necessarily a
> precondition of the latter.  I can easily admit that many of the terms
> are poorly defined, but in poorly defined laws the benefit of the doubt
> should go to the defendant.


When I trespass on someone else's property, I may not know who it belongs to
or that I am trespassing - but it doesn't change the fact that I am aware of
my activity in walking on to that land. Knowledge of the infringing activity
does not imply knowledge that the activity constitutes infringement; I
believe the legal doctrine concerned is known as [[strict liability]].

Johnleemk