Yeah, so far the Supreme Court in the US has consistently treated DNA as a chemical entity rather than as an information carrier. So patentable, but not copyrightable.
-- 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 ;-)
Patrik
On Sunday, July 6, 2014 10:08:49 PM UTC-7, Marc Juul wrote:
On Sunday, July 6, 2014 10:08:49 PM UTC-7, Marc Juul wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Jarrad <m...@jarradhope.com> wrote:Hey Guys,
There seems to be alot of interest around open science and how to go about that,
Has anyone looked at Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ ) or Open source licenses such as Apache 2.0, MIT, GPL
Has anyone thought about creating a more specific license for biology (sequences/protocols/etc) ?
For example it's unclear what license/terms the parts in iGEM use http://parts.igem.orgHi Jarrad. It is generally accepted that copyright does not apply to DNA as it does not constitute a creative work. This may change in the future as increasingly complex DNA is designed by humans. There are some legal arguments available for why copyright may already apply to certain DNA sequences. For now DNA is in the regime of patents. iGEM parts use the Biobrick Public Agreement (BPA): https://biobricks.org/bpa/ --marc/juul
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