Re: [dvd-discuss] Patented copyright ...

[Jim Bauer <jfbauer(at)comcast.net>]

Roy Murphy <murphy@panix.com> wrote:
>'Twas brillig when Richard M. Hartman scrobe:
>> Now I see a flaw here ... sure, they own the copyright
>> on the genetic "music" ... and if I play it on the radio
>> I'll owe them royalties ... but if I make a drug based
>> on the DNA sequence that has nothing to do with the encoded
>> music ... or that would be my take on this scheme.
>
>What would such an mp3 sound like?  Hisses?  Randomly varying tones?  Would
>a judge listening to the mp3 conclude that there's any protectable expression
>present at all?

I saw a documentary on TV many years ago where they took a section
of DNA and encoded it as music.  They played the result and it
really did sould like music, not just some random notes.


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Jim Bauer, jfbauer@comcast.net