<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On Aug 18, 2016 7:46 AM, "Dan TheBookMan" <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:06 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> What if the persons whose skin cells are used are dead? I can see where this is going - Olympic champions, Nobel prize winners, etc. will be essentially cloned. Could this lead to patents on DNA?<br>
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> In the US, federal law would have to be changed to abrogate the 02013 SCOTUS decision on this very issue:<br>
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> <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/gene-patent-decision-in-plain-english/" target="_blank">http://www.scotusblog.com/<wbr>2013/06/gene-patent-decision-<wbr>in-plain-english/</a></p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Copyright law might be more appropriate anyway. Nucleotides are essentially letters, and English is not the only form of putting symbols in sequences that can be copyrighted. Notice that computer code can be copyrighted, even if it is also functional.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That said, there would be arguments as to who did the composition: the donor, or the donor's parents. There are also laws against desecrating corpses; taking DNA without the consent of the deceased's estate would probably count.</p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> adrian</div><p></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Now - that's what would happen, perhaps, in the current era. What will happen in the future? I don't think it's a big stretch to say that people around the world may pay little attention to our laws or any laws for that matter, and produce copies of a person who is important or talented in some way.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Certainly such a thing will happen if uploading and downloading an entire personality becomes a reality. Of course someone may want a new 'sleeve' as some call it, but maybe with some DNA changed, such as more IQ, less allergies and so on. </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Or one could pay for a new sleeve (term from Altered Carbon) grown from some fantastic body or brain or both. Given man's vanity I am quite sure these will happen, given the assumptions above. In Altered Carbon a person is downloaded into two sleeves. The book did not answer the question of which one the person felt like himself in - sort of mind-blowing, eh? Can your mind be in two places at once?</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><p></p>
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