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

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 30 June 2010 at 18:23, PMA <PeterArmstrong at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> Has this thread distinguished between Copyright and Patent?

I don't think we've gone down the road of patents yet.

> As I understand, it is the latter that makes ideas property.

So does the former.

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.

[I'd better start round-filing this OT thread now that I threw fuel 
on the fire.  ;-)]


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Kevin