A major argument I make in my book, Who owns You? is about the nature of the natural genome as a “commons.” It seems to me utterly clear and uncontroversial that that there are some things that simply cannot be claimed by any individual as their “property” in any meaningful sense of the term. The strongest analogy I make is to radio spectra, which can be monopolized only over short distances as long as someone else has a transmitter of identical strength. Brute force cannot…
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