Felix Stalder on Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:38:57 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Celebs Copyright DNA to prevent illegal Clones |
[via "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>] --- begin forwarded text From: Peter Wayner <pcw2@FLYZONE.COM> Subject: Celebs Copyright DNA to prevent illegal Clones To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1492000/1492859.stm Well, people are going to start copyrighting everything. Celebrities who copyright their DNA could stop clones-- and unwanted paternity suits. In the past, the poor celebrity would have to pay child support. No longer. He could sue the woman for creating a derivative work without a license! Copying 50% of the DNA sure doesn't sound like fair use to me. Of course, this turns all petri dishes, pipettes and whatever other devices used by the cloners into copyright circumvention technology. The Bushies don't need to ban stem cell research per se. They can just use the DMCA. In fact, it would be against the law to even talk about how to make clones. Dmitry Skylarov could have some cell mates with PhDs in bio. The FBI could start raiding all of the bio conferences too looking for bio hackers. -Peter ********************************************************************** For Listserv Instructions, see http://www.lawlists.net/cyberia Off-Topic threads: http://www.lawlists.net/mailman/listinfo/cyberia-ot Need more help? Send mail to: Cyberia-L-Request@listserv.aol.com ********************************************************************** --- end forwarded text -- --------------------//-------- http://felix.openflows.org _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold