[Noisebridge-discuss] There is no way to protect/gpl plasmids, proteins, cells in synthetic biology help!

[William Heath]

Hi All,
I have a very serious problem.  There is no accepted way to protect/gpl
plasmids, proteins, cells in synthetic biology from being
copyrighted/patented by 3rd parties! I can't believe this is true. Even
supposedly opensource biobricks are not even protected. I tried to find
Richard Stallmans email but couldn't find it. The result of this issue
prevent ready exchange of synthetic biology materials because everyone is
afraid someone will steal their plasmids and make it illegal for them to use
it without paying them. Is that not crazy?! Please help me to figure out a
way to deal with this. I would have sent this to the diy bio list but they
are resisting this in my opinion. They are all on the patent/copyright
bandwagon unfortunately. They can't even answer the basic question of what
plasmids, dna, cells are not copyrighted/patented.

-Tim
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