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

[Jonathan Foote]

So what exactly is the problem?

As far as I can tell, we are nowhere close to having anything
protectable, let alone valuable enough that someone else would want to
copy it.
If you start worrying about this kind of thing now, you will thrash
and accomplish nothing.

To steal someone else's intellectual property: "Just do it."  Worry
about IP issues when you have some IP.



On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:42 AM, William Heath <wgheath at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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