[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:30:49PM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> But, the notion that discovering a gene (sequence) in an organism 
> could be patented is about as insane to me as to say that Columbus 
> should own the new world because he discovered it, even though some 
> would dispute that as well.

Not Columbus of course, but his employer... 
Which is more or less what happened.

Ciao,

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FA

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