Re: [313] ?? copyrighting DNA tunes ??

2002-05-22 Thread seth redmond
way off topic, but: this is extremely unlikely to come off... Firstly copyright is supposedly only applicable to work which is significantly original. But supposing they get around that (since so many people have). There has been a precedent set within the life sciences community that most

Re: [313] ?? copyrighting DNA tunes ??

2002-05-22 Thread Rc
on 22/5/02 11:06 AM, Fred Heutte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the deal here is that the copyright would be in the "sound > recording rights" not the song "publishing rights". > noit would be publishing rights as we are talking about a the underlying intellectual property rights with

Re: [313] ?? copyrighting DNA tunes ??

2002-05-22 Thread Fred Heutte
I think the deal here is that the copyright would be in the "sound recording rights" not the song "publishing rights". But it's a murky area and one thing we know is that whenever copyright or other intellectual property rights are involved, systems designed to protect the creator, performer and

Re: [313] ?? copyrighting DNA tunes ??

2002-05-22 Thread Jayson B.
>From the Now I've Seen Everything Dept: "Maxygen's scientists and lawyers are proposing [to] encode the DNA sequences as MP3s or other music files and then copyright these genetic 'tunes'As the 'authors' of these DNA-based songs, Maxygen could, in theory, control the rights to the composit

[313] ?? copyrighting DNA tunes ??

2002-05-22 Thread Fred Heutte
You might want to take a more careful listen to that next broken-beat or vaguely Basic-Channelish track you download from some random MP3 site. It might be a portion of someone's genome... ! -- mail forwarded, original message follows -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]