Patent-Busting: The Public Patent Foundation, Gene Patents, and the Seed Wars

By Matthew Rimmer. 2013

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Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (2021, background): “In patent law, the phenomenon of ‘patent-busting’ has been described to harm some, but create widespread social benefit to other actors (Rimmer, 2013).”
Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (2022, background): “If LMs can be used to generate content that serves as a credible substitute for a particular example of human creativity - otherwise protected by copyright - this potentially allows such work to be replaced without the author’s copyright being infringed, analogous to ”patent-busting” [158].”