Re: [DIYbio] DNA Patent/Copyright Law?

I think we are due for patent redo with shorter than 20 years duration since tech change has sped up.
Maybe covd-19 will spur more thinking on it by lawmakers since some dropping of secrecy and open collaboration on viral therapies,
tests, etc is getting to be news.

On 5/8/20 12:32 AM, Koeng wrote:
> Copyright doesn't cover DNA sequence in the states (or at least, never tried). Personally, I think copyright for sequences is a
> really bad idea - look at Mickey Mouse, and then imagine that's CRISPR. Copyright allows for pretty much indefinite IP property
> rights that are extremely easy to get. Patents expire after 20 years, so in a way they were the original open source to prevent
> company secrets.
>
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 4:31:52 PM UTC-7, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>
> If you are buying from them, then the conditions are probably stipulated by some click-through contract. In which case it
> might not be patent or copyright law, but contract law.
>
> In any case, it seems that patent law is the dominant law of DNA, disgusting as that is. Copyright is of dubious application
> as it does not cover "facts", but the precedence of copyright applying to computer code *could* be argued to extend cover to
> human-created DNA sequences, which is the position I and others would take, as it allows us to also apply copyleft.
>
> On 6 May 2020 23:32:51 GMT+01:00, betanic <balp...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> A certain biotech company has this line to their limited use license for plasmids:
>
> "No modifications to the protein coding sequence of the FPs may be made without the express written permission of COMPANY."
>
> This does not specify at all the extent of the "modification", without that specification couldn't anything be considered
> a modification?

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