Re: thought for the week

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Steven D. Jamar <sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu> wrote:
>
> No. A thousand times no! The world of copyright is a world in which
> not only may you eat the tomato, but you are encouraged to grow your
> own -- if we treat the seeds as the information (genetic in the case
> of tomatoes) -- and the fruit as the expression of it.
>
> You can't use someone else's creative expression - but you can use the
> ideas -- seeds -- freely. And build on them, plant them, and nurture
> them, and help them grow.

Assuming, of course, that the tomato is not from your garden of asexual breeding plants protected by a patent. :-)

Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers University School of Law - Camden rod[_at_]cyberspaces.org
http://www.cyberspaces.org/ Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 11:39:25 GMT