Body corporate [videorecording] : who owns your genes? / produced by ABC Australia.
Contributor(s): Harley, Wayne | Shine, John | Fowler, Andrew | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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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![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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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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