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He's buying seed, from a third party, without signing any agreement with Monsanto. That seed isn't even necessarily Monsanto's product, but from plants that des
by OGinparadise 14y ago
He's buying seed, from a third party, without signing any agreement with Monsanto. That seed isn't even necessarily Monsanto's product, but from plants that descended from those seeds. It may contain the patented genes, but those genes only got there from the original authorized sale of seed to whoever owned the elevator.
Devil's advocate: even if you buy your DVD at Amazon you still cannot show it for $2 each to 50 people at your home or make copies for profit.
Maybe the sack containing the seed had some sort of disclaimer "by opening and using this you agree to..."
- largesse 14y agoRe Devil's Advocate: that's a copyright rather than patent.
- pedrocr 14y agoDevil's advocate: even if you buy your DVD at Amazon you still cannot show it for $2 each to 50 people at your home or make copies for profit. Is that actually the case? Last time I sawy anything about this the publishers were trying to have it both ways, saying that on the one hand what you owned wasn't the disk it was a license to the content so you couldn't just do whatever you wanted with it, but if you tried to use that to say "well then I can rip the DVD and copy it somewhere else" you'd get an argument about only owning that specific format.
- DrJokepu 14y agoYes it is. You need a license for public performances of copyrighted works; in America this is governed by Title 17 of the United States Code.