Re: [DIYbio] Open Source Licenses for publishing sequences?

On 07/07/2014 12:51 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> Someone should really write an original piece of poetry, and encode it into DNA along with a copyright notice...
>
> For extra credit: come up with a codon usage table so each codon choice encodes a few bits of information. Then design a
> functioning enzyme that simultaneously encodes a poem as well. Then patent and copyright the heck out of it, and release it into
> the wild. Stand back and watch the IP system implode ;-)


"But the eagle-eyed Joyce literary estate took exception to the use of the Irish master's quote, Venter revealed, sending him a
cease and desist order."

Sounds like there might be wars between patent rights and copyrights starting already!

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