Thursday, March 07, 2013
Monsanto's Bean Counters
Thanks to Melba Kurman for bringing the following writ to the US Supreme Court to my attention:
http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WARF-McBride-Amicus-January-24-2013.pdf
As she says, the analogy struck on the bottom of Page 15 is essentially using RepRap as a model for the behaviour of a living system for the purposes of "intellectual property" law. The wheel has definitely turned full circle...
I wonder, if that argument holds, how far you would get arguing that, as a living thing is deemed to be a type of RepRap machine, then, ipso facto, all living things must fall under the RepRap open licence...
http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WARF-McBride-Amicus-January-24-2013.pdf
As she says, the analogy struck on the bottom of Page 15 is essentially using RepRap as a model for the behaviour of a living system for the purposes of "intellectual property" law. The wheel has definitely turned full circle...
I wonder, if that argument holds, how far you would get arguing that, as a living thing is deemed to be a type of RepRap machine, then, ipso facto, all living things must fall under the RepRap open licence...
