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I think the biologists need to take a long, hard look at how MPEG-LA has acted and conducted itself in the past. Even if you blame its participants for their co

I think the biologists need to take a long, hard look at how MPEG-LA has acted and conducted itself in the past. Even if you blame its participants for their collective behavior, it's still pretty damning of this operation and currency of thinking. Keep CRISPR-Cas9 out of MPEG-LA. Y'all have been warned. Form a pool using defensive patent licenses, do whatever it takes if you really want to reduce "transaction costs", but do it without that community.

adventured 9y ago
No question, both the commercial potential of CRISPR and the humanitarian potential will be served by keeping MPEG LA on the outside. So far that appears to be the case, their dream of acting as the centralized CRISPR patent authority hasn't gotten traction.
- kanzure 9y ago
  MPEG-LA has also been getting into the human genome project-write initiative. Source: I'm on the intellectual propety working group. The only other active member is MPEG-LA. Send help immediately.
  - adventured 9y ago
    That's wild. What do you suspect they're attempting to accomplish with HGPW? Are they using it to scout patent opportunities?
    - kanzure 9y ago
      I think they probably haven't even sorted out their intentions at this point. But you know, these things just have a way of developing on their own just by tiny nudges at the beginning. For an overview of the GP-write project, see the following: 1) Science article: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/The%20human%20genome%20project%20-%20write,%20hgp-write%20-%202016.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/The%20human%20genome%20p... 2) timeline: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Synthetic%20human%20genome%20project%20hgp-write%20draft%20timeline%20-%202016.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Synthetic%20human%20geno... 3) fact sheet: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/HGP-write-Fact-Sheet.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/HGP-write-Fact-Sheet.pdf Really I'd like to somehow get EFF to ride to my rescue but I've sort of got myself into this mess on my own so it's not really on them. EFF doesn't focus on biological freedom issues like these, anyway. At least not yet.

adventured 9y ago

No question, both the commercial potential of CRISPR and the humanitarian potential will be served by keeping MPEG LA on the outside. So far that appears to be the case, their dream of acting as the centralized CRISPR patent authority hasn't gotten traction.

kanzure 9y ago
MPEG-LA has also been getting into the human genome project-write initiative. Source: I'm on the intellectual propety working group. The only other active member is MPEG-LA. Send help immediately.
- adventured 9y ago
  That's wild. What do you suspect they're attempting to accomplish with HGPW? Are they using it to scout patent opportunities?
  - kanzure 9y ago
    I think they probably haven't even sorted out their intentions at this point. But you know, these things just have a way of developing on their own just by tiny nudges at the beginning. For an overview of the GP-write project, see the following: 1) Science article: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/The%20human%20genome%20project%20-%20write,%20hgp-write%20-%202016.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/The%20human%20genome%20p... 2) timeline: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Synthetic%20human%20genome%20project%20hgp-write%20draft%20timeline%20-%202016.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/Synthetic%20human%20geno... 3) fact sheet: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/HGP-write-Fact-Sheet.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/HGP-write-Fact-Sheet.pdf Really I'd like to somehow get EFF to ride to my rescue but I've sort of got myself into this mess on my own so it's not really on them. EFF doesn't focus on biological freedom issues like these, anyway. At least not yet.