Just as present parents have joint rights to custody of their children,
and if they are dead, their relatives all have rights based on proximity
of relation.
It's
> been a while since I've studied genetics, but I believe there are
> tremendous amounts of reoccurring patterns in our exon DNA. I'm not
> sure about the intron material. It would be interesting trying to use
> introns as a type of PGP signature or copyright mark, but I'm afraid it
> would be too easily circumvented. Any 'current' geneticists out there?
>
> Backtracking a bit, I wonder if it could be well argued for the parent's
> ownership of a child's code? (Another factor for divorce court. . .)
> If the code is owned by each individual, would it be illegal for the
> parents to manufacture twins?
Nope, each parent has shared biological rights to their children, and a
legal right to contribute any portion, whole or part to a reproductive
act.
>
> Regarding ownership of one's one code: If a clone was made by the owner
> (in this example one's self) and now two individuals owned rights to the
> code, as you've suggested, the legalities of one clone selling genetic
> information to another party might be interesting. Also, what happens
> if an illegal (as defined by this example) clone were made? Clearly it
> could not be denied its rights, could it?
I would say that the original has rights as a fraction in inverse
proportion to the number of generations removed that the new clone is.
Likewise, just as decendants of President Zachary Taylor had rights ( or
rather a responsibility to protect their heritage) as to the exhumation
of his body for an autopsy to determine actual cause of death,
decendants are responsible for safeguarding their genetic heritage.
>
> Finally, how long would one's genetic material remain under copyright?
> How long after death? Depending on that answer, who owns the currently
> deceased? If it is public domain, do we have the right to exhume their
> bodies and claim our property?
>
> It is unfortunate that these questions will have to be answered very
> soon and probably without much deliberation.
>
I think that the only difference between current family rights and
future as impacted by the reality of cloning is that a clone will have a
100% heritage from one family rather than a partial heritage from each
parent. I think that reproductive rights need to be defined as a right
to one's genetic code. The more it is divvied up or decended from, the
more dilute the rights, but they are still there.
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