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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ciconia on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:16AM (#20572544)
Information is always created by someone. Creation does not necessarily mean ownership.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ijidak on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:22AM (#20572561)
Wait... Who created the information in DNA?

How does that tie to ownership?

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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by krageon on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:08AM (#20573306)
Nobody created it, the argument makes no sense in the case of naturally occurring DNA.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by colordrops on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:32PM (#20577466)
Physical objects are not the same as information. We create all information. Hard drives are just atoms arranged a particular way and how we interact and process those atoms adds the information layer on top. Same goes for DNA.
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Re:Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder... by ijidak on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:40PM (#20576504)
> Nobody created it

I don't think we can state that as a fact, can we?

I was just watching this discussion here yesterday: https://youtu.be/noj4phMT9OE.

Very interesting points made.

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