Source: http://io9.com/5913821/how-to-copyright-a-color I have told all of you numerous times that they will eventually copyright every piece of information that you could want to make use of. You should probably start believing me now.
Yet not nearly as horrifying as what Monsanto does. They copyrighted a certain DNA sequence of their soybeans. The DNA sequence is GM, so it can include the pesticide/herbicide Round-Up, which is also manufactured by Monsanto. So they have these soybeans copyrighted. They sell them to farmers. The farmers use them. The farmers cannot use the seed that grew with the year's crop again. They have to return them all to Monsanto because it is copyrighted. So they have to repurchase these seeds every year. This is 90% of the farmers, mind you. Not a minority. And if you don't grow using Monsanto soy beans, but your neighbor does, and they happen to blow over. You never even used them for growing. Monsanto investigates your property and sues your ass for everything you've got. They are a vile corporation. It is an exploitation of copyrights designed to inflict harm to others. This sort of nothing is intolerable in my opinion. Whether it is certain shades of colors or the DNA sequence in a soy bean. There needs to be limits on what can be copyrighted and how copyrights can be used.
Intellectual property naturally takes away possible uses from one's physical property, or rather allows others to charge you for certain uses of your physical property. The limits that you speak of remind me of an analogy. Two doctors are taking care of a patient with a tumor. The first doctor says, "Let's cut out the whole thing and be done with it." The second doctor says, "No, let's cut away all but a tiny sliver and hope that it doesn't grow. If we do, we can charge him for antibiotics until he dies." I prefer the first doctor's solution.
