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A counterpoint to that is that genetically modified organisms can be patented and those are effectively random perturbations of current 'state of the art' which

• lcrz 7y ago
  That's not a counterpoint. That's a case in point. The selection by the human (or by any other method) is the 'creativity'. The fact that the change itself occurred randomly is not important. The fact that the permutation was chosen is actually what gives it a certain color in the sense of the article. There's also a difference between copyright and patent law.