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Here is another from an impartial source:
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The trial judge found that “none of the suggested sources [proposed by Schmeiser] could reasonably explain the concentration or extent of Roundup Ready canola of a commercial quality” ultimately present in Schmeiser’s crop ((2001), 202 F.T.R. 78, at para. 118).
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It's like someone found the complete works of Stephen King on my Kindle, and my defense was that they must have gotten there accidentally when I downloaded free first chapters from Amazon. Except that here the result of making it impossible to defend intellectual property wouldn't be fewer professionally crafted and edited horror novels, but less food to feed a hungry planet. I still don't understand how ficbot admitting disrespect for seed patents does anything to strengthen his or her case on copyright.
My view is obviously pro-seed-patent, but also in favor of enforced copyright for limited periods. While I don't treat the US Constitution as some kind of infalible Bible, its implication that both patent and copyright be similarly limited seems good to me. From Article I, Section 8:
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To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
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