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18 pages in length. The antagonistic issue of ownership is one that transcends virtually all boundaries of what might otherwise be considered a civilized society. From ancient Rome to contemporary times, the fight for lawful claim upon a certain entity has always been ensnared within the confines of man's contempt for fair distribution of any given commodity. The concern over the absence of any copyright protection laws for human genomics databases is but one of myriad issues surrounding the entire precarious research program; with sensitive and pertinent information being discovered in relation to human genomics research, and the fact that anyone is fully capable of securing that information without prior permission by only slightly modifying the existing database, original creators and critics are up in arms about the unethical and inequitable nature of such unprotected actions, a bone of contention that has existed in various forms for hundreds of years. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
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contemporary times, the fight for lawful claim upon a certain entity has always been ensnared within the confines of mans contempt for fair distribution of any given commodity. "Just
as uses of information can be excluded on the basis of copyright, technological measures allow the exclusion of uses. However, while copyright is limited in many ways (by its
term, its object, the scope of the restricted acts and the explicit statutory exemptions), exclusivity based on technology is potentially unlimited" (Koelman, 2001). The concern over the absence of
any copyright protection laws for human genomics databases is but one of myriad issues surrounding the entire precarious research program; with sensitive and pertinent information being discovered in relation to
human genomics research, and the fact that anyone is fully capable of securing that information without prior permission by only slightly modifying the existing database, original creators and critics are
up in arms about the unethical and inequitable (Benkler, 1999) nature of such unprotected actions, a bone of contention that has existed in various forms for hundreds of years.
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should
freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed
by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have
our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation" (Jefferson, 1854, pp. 180-181). II. UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT The technological revolution has brought with
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