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So any information... Say human DNA, is free to copy if you shed your hair somewhere?

• pdonis 6y ago
  In our current legal system, yes, you don't have any property rights over pieces of your DNA that you unavoidably leave all over the place as you go about your life. Do you think we should? If so, how would you go about enforcing such rights?
• zelphirkalt 6y ago
  A great idea for a science-fiction novel. Just imagine if that happened to become true one day. Some people would have to come up with secrets they exchange, as to make themselves unique to the other person, because there might be clones running around. And all the art and music would either not exist or be somehow supported by society. Society would have to learn, that we need to support what we like, or else the makers of it could not live from it. Would the system of money still work? Would we have different forms for economies unlike capitalism? How would greed work?