[NetBehaviour] If a Patented Gene Appears in a Song, Who Gets the Royalty?

james jwm-art net james at jwm-art.net
Wed Aug 1 12:58:25 CEST 2007


You forgot the link!

I don't know much about this, but I thought that genetic music had
nothing to do with real extracted DNA, but merely (oh yes) the
algorithms used were said to be genetic, that is had characteristics of
DNA in the way they (the algorithms) evolved.

james.

On 1/8/2007, "marc garrett" <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:

>If a Patented Gene Appears in a Song, Who Gets the Royalty?
>
>"Sure, genetic music was the out-of-left-field off shoot of the Human
>Genome Project, but we can't deny that the field -- such as it is -- has
>shown surprising longevity. If you have a free minute, check out this
>newly issued patent. It covers "music generated by decoding and
>transcribing genetic information within a DNA sequence into a music
>signal having melody and harmony," according to the abstract. The
>inventors listed are a couple of lawyers (hence the title of this post)."
>
>more...
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