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Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood

Posted by samzenpus on from the ever-lasting-lassie dept.

Kate Thompson writes "A week after San Francisco's Genetic Savings and Clone revealed the sale of their first cat to a customer, the Boston Phoenix reports that GS & C acknowledges it has been hired by anonymous buyers in Hollywood to bank genes of show business animals."

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  1. Clone Natalie Portman by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, someone had to say it. But seriously...

    I'm all for folks getting in on the cloning business. At the worst, it can't be more unethical than what many pet farms already are.

    This provides a financial incentive to refine the technology and make the whole thing more acceptable and familiar to people. Animal breeding has fewer ethical restrictions than medical cloning, so there are fewer ethical roadblocks.

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  2. Pet patents? DNA copyright? by OwlWhacker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since people started playing with DNA, it's obvious that people could start cloning things that belong to somebody else.

    Can you claim copyright on your pet?

    We've heard plenty about Intellectual Property (IP), but what about Physical Property (PP)?

    What if somebody cloned you? What legal issues could arise from this?

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