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I want to say "duh"... Copyrighting/patenting Life is for me the penultimate example of corporate greed. Luckily we won the first round here in the US [0] but

• 6nf 10y ago
  > .. the penultimate example of corporate greed. Did you mean 'ultimate', or is there a worse example of corporate greed?
  • brezelgoring 10y ago
    Seconding this. What do we find if we go to the top?
    • themartorana 10y ago
      Corporate ownership of people (or The People), not just a copyright on their DNA. You might argue it's already happening in a Corporatocracy, and I'd have a hard time arguing with you. When corporations not only own production and the right to prevent others from producing, but the governing of those rights (see every copyright extension in the last hundred years) there isn't a whole lot left.
• bduerst 10y ago
  CRISPR-9cas isn't a patent on life or a naturally occurring process, it's a new novel technique for cutting DNA. The court case isn't disputing over whether or not life can be patented, but whether the first-to-patent rule can be upheld when someone already filed a patent. It's completely unrelated to that article you linked to.