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Lessig Blog by Lawrence Lessig is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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Awesome! I love seeing an obviously proud dad (being one myself).
As a humorous/philosophical aside, do the procreative commons relate to cloning?
Attribution. You let others clone, distribute, display, and grow your copyrighted work
Noncommercial. You let others clone, distribute, display, and grow your work � and derivative works based upon it � but for noncommercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works. You let others clone, distribute, display, and grow only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Mmm. Perhaps copyright is a more appropriate path than patents for genetic engineering (oh, wait, given the lengths of copyright today, let's keep that thought to ourselves! ;-)
After seeing this picture and going to sleep, I had a bizarre dream where they moved your website to a new server and began a streaming Willem television station that provided full HDTV-quality video over the Internet -- of Willem!
Must have one of those shirts for my son. Brilliant.
Alan, I realize that was a joke, but it made me think:
Does one currently have a right to control his own DNA? Could someone take a DNA sample of mine without me noticing (this shouldn't be hard: a piece of hair, saliva on a drinking glass, etc.) and use it for whatever purpose? Cloning is not here for humans (yet?) but there are other things -- be it sequencing or just a study or anything like that -- does one have a right to control the uses of his DNA? Or does the act of shedding a hair from one's head constitute giving it away?
You can find Procreative Commons t-shirts, bibs, and "creepers" (baby body suits) here: girls and boys.
Cute!
Playgroups might be interesting in a few years.
"This is the share-alike license for toys. This is a special some-rights-reserved setting, for when you want to take your ball and go home ..."
Hmmm, lessig pickup lines. Sounds like a sure way to get slapped in a bar. 'hey baby, i'm a big believer in creative commons. It's time we freed the culture. I'm a footsoldier in the (pro)creative commons and I'm looking for training. What do you say I rip, mix and burn you?'
regarding DNA, there are already cases where a doctor patented and used his patient's DNA without their knowledge. The cases were upheld in favor of the doctor.
Bottom line: the person who makes the first claim or use gets the ownership. If it is you, fine, but in most cases it won't be.