[Newspoetry] twist in the double helix

[Joe Futrelle]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/weekinreview/31FOUN.html

This article concerns translating DNA sequences into music so that they 
could be copyright-protected.  Noted DNA-sequence-sonifier John Dunn is 
quoted as being repulsed by this legally and aesthetically warped 
strategy.  But to me it's ironically similar to civil libertarians' 
strategy of setting DeCSS to music (and various other high-falutin forms of 
expression) to establish its first-amendment status as speech (on display 
in the DeCSS gallery @ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/).  Up 
there on the bedfellows-strangeness scale.


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Joe Futrelle
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