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Body corporate [videorecording] : who owns your genes? / produced by ABC Australia.

Contributor(s): Harley, Wayne | Shine, John | Fowler, Andrew | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Filmakers Library, inc.
Publisher: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 9781463112400.Uniform titles: Four corners (Television program) Subject(s): Patent laws and legislation -- United States | Patent laws and legislation -- Australia | Genes -- Patents | Genes -- Patents -- Moral and ethical aspects | Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 346.730486
Production Credits: Producer, Wayne Harley ; editor, Michael Nettleship.
Reporter, Andrew Fowler.Commentary: John Shine, Mark Skolnick, Sean Grimmond, Wendy K. Chung.Summary: "A new war is raging across the globe today, a major legal and scientific battle over one simple question: should individuals and corporations be allowed to patent genes? The human genome is a genetic whirlpool of twenty thousand genes. But many don't realize that fully four thousand of these are the property of a corporation. While biotech companies argue that patents on human genes reward successful medical researchers and promote the investigation of life saving treatments, others see it very differently. Is gene-patenting the key to decoding life-saving medical information or a capitalist land-grab driven by greed? In Body Corporate, reporter Andrew Fowler travels through the United States and Australia to hear from both sides in this high-stakes controversy. Can the basis of life itself truly be patented and sold? If our unique genes can be patented, could they later be franchised out to a major corporation? The film raises these questions and profiles the companies that are gearing up to battle all the way to the Supreme Court to protect their multimillion dollar investments."--container.
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Originally broadcast as a segment of Four Corners on ABC television on September 6, 2010.

Producer, Wayne Harley ; editor, Michael Nettleship.

Reporter, Andrew Fowler.

Commentary: John Shine, Mark Skolnick, Sean Grimmond, Wendy K. Chung.

"A new war is raging across the globe today, a major legal and scientific battle over one simple question: should individuals and corporations be allowed to patent genes? The human genome is a genetic whirlpool of twenty thousand genes. But many don't realize that fully four thousand of these are the property of a corporation. While biotech companies argue that patents on human genes reward successful medical researchers and promote the investigation of life saving treatments, others see it very differently. Is gene-patenting the key to decoding life-saving medical information or a capitalist land-grab driven by greed? In Body Corporate, reporter Andrew Fowler travels through the United States and Australia to hear from both sides in this high-stakes controversy. Can the basis of life itself truly be patented and sold? If our unique genes can be patented, could they later be franchised out to a major corporation? The film raises these questions and profiles the companies that are gearing up to battle all the way to the Supreme Court to protect their multimillion dollar investments."--container.

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