Copyright law: getting stupider and more outdated every day.
Craig Venter, whose research team created the first synthetic life form last year by replacing the genome of a bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum with one composed on a computer, just gave a talk at SXSW where he related the mind-boggling story of being sent a cease and desist and threat of lawsuit by the estate of James Joyce, for encoding the line "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,” (from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) in said bacteria. Venter claims fair use.
--Ryan
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