LAWS 2601 Lecture 1: Intellectual property
22 Nov 2017
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To have intellectual property- own it, in a gallery, not on the street, Illegally downloaded a movie or streamed one: prosecuted under copyright act, not allowed to ask you for an amount of money to make the charge go away. In 2015 changed were made to copyright act. Had an 87% chance of getting ovarian cancer. Took preventive ways to make sure she does not. A bc clinic made a lower cost for people that were likely to have the gene for the cancer. Other places in us did it as well myriad did not like this so they tried to shut them all down, was costing them money. This issue raises: healthcare, should they be able to do this when life and death are at stake. in between jolies surgerys the us targeted myriad saying you cant own a gene, open for brac test for cancer. Human material that is naturally occurring cannot not be subject to patent.
