Who owns me?
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| One of the most disturbing ideas I've encountered in intellectual property
| law is the peculiar idea of owning and being able to patent naturally
| occuring gene sequences, such as those in the Human Genome project.
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| In our society, we argue for the idea of ownership of information, we
| permit the ownership of living beings, but we deny the ownership of people.
| Yet, the information that makes a person?his or her "source"--is something
| that can be bought and sold. Have we drawn the line in the right place?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1712
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