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Copyright laws and genetic engineering: do they suck?

Even as a musician and writer who is supposed to like strong copyright protection, I agree with Dan Gillmor of SiliconValley.com. Intellectual property laws have strayed too far from their original intent. Martin Scorsese once said that "sharing ideas keeps you alive" -- it follows that current trends in IP law will kill us creatively.

And as someone with a degree in biology, many of the applications of genetic engineering give me the heebie-jeebies. If you feel you don't understand the subject well enough to know how you feel, then go here and learn.

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