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Encoding DNA as Music for Copyrighting?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-flat-out-slimey dept.

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."

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  1. Plagiarizing by ziggy_zero · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You should be able to copyright sequences you made entirely yourself. But if you use any part of any other DNA sequence that already exists in the world, you should be accused of plagiarizing God's work. The work of God should not be copyrighted.

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  2. If it's my DNA... by fmaxwell · · Score: 2, Redundant

    If it is my DNA, then no one else has a right to patent it. Besides, patents are supposed to be granted for inventions and processes, not discoveries.