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> Someone contaminated his property with Roundup-Ready canola. He chose to take advantage of that, isolate it, and replant it. He never agreed with anybody to n
by coin 13y ago
> Someone contaminated his property with Roundup-Ready canola. He chose to take advantage of that, isolate it, and replant it. He never agreed with anybody to not do this, or signed contracts to control what he does with what ends up on his property.
An analogous situation is someone tosses a movie DVD on your yard. You take that DVD, make thousands of copies, and then profit from them.
- hyperpape 13y agoSomeone tosses a patented DVD seed into your patch of DVD plants, and it grows there. You see that it's a good DVD plant, so you replant it. Someone claims you can't do that, even though it's a DVD seed that grew from a DVD plant that grew on your land, and you never signed any kind of agreement not to do that. Analogies are hard!