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Encoding DNA as Music for Copyrighting?
superposed writes "A Silicon Valley executive is proposing that biotech companies could improve on the U.S.'s 20-year patent protection for DNA sequences by encoding them as digital music files (Lame Free Registration required) and using copyright protection, which can last up to 100 years. Right now this is just a suggestion, and for what it's worth, the original author of some of the DNA-to-music software thinks its a bad idea. But it's still disturbing somehow."
...It'll still sound better than the Backstreet Boys..
Would the RIAA try and make human cloning (well, copying the 'music') illegal?
The one thing in common between DNA and digital music is that they are booth made to copy.
God appears in court on Monday to sue every medical company for violating his DNA patents.
DAMMIT!
When I first read this, it gave me ideas! I was thinking.. "Whoa! In that case, I'm gonna use the court's tendency to rule in favor of ridiculous copyright claims to my advantage! I'm gonna copyright my fingerprints, my retina, and my DNA! Then I'll sue the DMV if they refuse to remove my fingerprint from their databases! And from now on, I can proudly refuse to give away my fingerprints to banks and police!"
Pity..
You can run but you can't hide, except, apparently, along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
When this thing is ready, can I get a copy of you guys? I'd like it bitrate 192, I don't like quality loss :)
I absolutely need to get to a genetics lab and get myself sequenced so I can copyright myself ASAP.
Of course DNA is a creative work. But the author has a tendency to take things a bit personally when you step on his turf - plagues of locusts, seas of blood, 40 years wandering the dessert.
"False gods" are a particular sore spot. It also involved money and the creation of synthetic animals -- wasn't there something about cattle made of gold?
So sure, claim His work. But don't expect much sympathy when a Legion of Angelic Lawyers arrive to contest it.
</passover humor>
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
No doubt. And blood tests would be a considered a violation of the DMCA - using reverse-engineering to access a copyrighted work.
I think I'll make songs out of the various cold and flu viruses, charge a dollar royalty every time someone gets sick. I could use the extra bucks for Christmas shopping.
....what happens if you play it backwards?
Wouldn't it be cool if there's like one guy somewhere who's DNA rips out some funky techno beats? Probably Oakenfold or BT, if anyone. Who knows, maybe we'll get a KDNA or WDNA radio station eventually.
This is WDNA, all biotech, all the time.
.cig - what you do after winning a good flame war
wouldn't this sart opening up huge metal faces on Mars and shit?
sic transit gloria mundi
To get copyrightprotection it must be an original and creative work.
Naive you are. Read this you must.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
If my DNA sequence is identical to that of DNA encoded Backstreet Boys track, I may well expect a cease-and-decist letter from the RIAA effectively ordering me to commit suicide?
Let me tell you, it is by far his best work!
And all the record companies have to pay royalties for putting excerpts of his work in between the regular tracks of music on CDs.
But at least when I rip it to MP3, I can use a low bitrate without losing quality!
a Legion of Angelic Lawyers
If that's not an oxymoron...