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Gene patents overthrown

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My personal opinion - copyrights protects 'luxuries' (arts, cultural stuff), patents protect 'necessity' (science).



May I nitpick? B| As most people know, copyrights and patents are separate sub-categories under the broader category of "intellectual property". Anyhow, your definitions are on the right track, but a little over-simplified. A patent is an exclusive right granted to the developer of an invention........

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So who invented these genes?


She did.

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My personal opinion - copyrights protects 'luxuries' (arts, cultural stuff), patents protect 'necessity' (science).



Sounds like you have a good fundamental understanding of the differences between copyright and patents. I won't argue with it.

But I do think you're forgetting the Golden Rule - those with the Gold, make the Rules.
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Look at "Steamboat Willie", the first Mickey Mouse cartoon. It's old enough it should have been public domain by now, but Disney keeps paying - err, "lobbying" - congress to extend copyright law, rather than let it fall to public domain.



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My personal opinion - copyrights protects 'luxuries' (arts, cultural stuff), patents protect 'necessity' (science).



May I nitpick? B| As most people know, copyrights and patents are separate sub-categories under the broader category of "intellectual property". Anyhow, your definitions are on the right track, but a little over-simplified. A patent is an exclusive right granted to the developer of an invention........

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So who invented these genes?


She did.


And She doesn't need patents.
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As someone who's very much in debt because of law school, passed the patent bar, and is now working on an LLM...I would hope I do at this point, or else I wasted a lot of time and money!!! :P

What I said is very oversimplified (to answer a previous post/comment), I realize, but it's my 'general' opinion as to the difference between copyrights and patents and why I would have much larger concerns with modifying the patent term versus the copyright term.

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