Some of us are of the opinion that DNA is essentially a set of blueprints that contains a set of instructions that governs how natural living things operate. We know that some of the processes are similar to computer storage processes (error correction of DNA damage for example).

Now a mechanism has been found to use the DNA molecule for general data storage. From Wired "Half a Million DVDs of Data Stored in Gram of DNA" .

My opinion is that the Natural Process use of DNA to store the blueprints of life is not be patentable. But the tools that would make it possible for humans to store and read information and move the information to our world could be. The information itself belongs in the realm of copyright.

How should copyright deal with a book that reproduces itself? This would be the case if a book was stored as "non coding DNA in a living organism".

Fred

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