Re: [LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

From: Charles Henry <czhenry@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 16 2010 - 21:54:22 EEST

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, James Morris <james@email-addr-hidden-art.net> wrote:
> How would you feel then, if you were a farmer, about being prosecuted
> for growing plants from the seed of the plants that grew from the
> seeds purchased from international seed company X?

This, also, is illegal. Your chance of being prosecuted depends on
the value of the product whose intellectual property rights are being
infringed. i.e. did you know that when Pioneer creates a new seed,
they have to sequence the genome in order to patent it?

Yup, that's yet another analogy shot full of holes :)
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