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posted by
steve
on Tuesday May 21, @04:03PM
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Posted by Jon Ippolito 5.21.02 to Rhizome_Raw. In an inverse way, this strategy mirrors the code-as-language issue that is critical to the debate over privatization of the public domain. See Micz Flor's essay "Hear Me Out" re r a d i o q u a l i a's "Free Radio Linux" project, for example. Ippolito writes:
"From the Now I've Seen Everything Dept:
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Posted by Jon Ippolito 5.21.02 to Rhizome_Raw. In an inverse way, this strategy mirrors the code-as-language issue that is critical to the debate over privatization of the public domain. See Micz Flor's essay on "Hear Me Out" re r a d i o q u a l i a's "Free Radio Linux" project, for more. Ippolito writes:
"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 compositions for 95 years or more--as opposed to the 17 years given under current patent law."
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52666,00.html
As laughable as Maxygen's proposal is, it also hints that the structural defects of copyright--which is supposed to protect the lowly from the mighty--are independent of the particular situation of art and artists.
What's next, a Celera Genomics press conference with guest spokesman Lars Urlich?
I pity you science fiction writers out there, trying to think up futures as bizarre as our present.
jon
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