What comes to mind immediately is the fact that the copyright law is based on the individual. Our knowledge and culture is based with our communities. It's community-oriented. For example, there are images used on the teepees out west, where the families own those images. Only certain members of the family are given the responsibility and ability to put those images on those particular teepees. When someone comes along and takes a picture of those images, and then turns around and sells T-shirts, and claims copyright because they have the images....
If you change the form of the knowledge, that does not constitute ownership of the knowledge. Regardless of what form the knowledge takes, whether it goes to a website or becomes a book, the knowledge itself is still owned by the community.