Kosh's Shadow 11/12/2025 9:04:43 AM

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Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic

vxbush 11/12/2025 9:21:34 AM

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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic

There's a lot of weird news stories coming out, like Ralph Baric tried to warn NIH that COVID looked manmade....when UNC, where he works, has copyrights to some portions of the virus. So why would he change his story immediately and say it was natural? That's something that came out last week. 

Lots of live fire in the communications area, trying to lay the ground war before people start having to talk to Congress about COVID, the lead up to it, and the aftermath. 

buzzsawmonkey 11/12/2025 9:30:06 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

"Copyrights on the virus?"  Patents, maybe, but "copyrights?"

Kosh's Shadow 11/12/2025 9:30:52 AM

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Microsoft.

The update yesterday installed successfully on ONE of the computers I'm responsible for.

3 others needed a repair reinstall (which actually runs smoothly and leaves protrams and settings intact) which takes around 4-5 hours. Other update fixes did not work.

JCM 11/12/2025 10:09:37 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:

AGGCTTAGC..... That's all a virus is. A string of letters representing base pairs. If I know the sequence I can replicated... with a lab.

So if a string of text describes the "thing" would a copyright apply?

buzzsawmonkey 11/12/2025 10:22:32 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

The letters may "describe" the virus, but the virus itself is a string of proteins, or whatever, not the letters used to indicate what those proteins are.  Copyright doesn't cover the proteins, or the process of creating them; that's the province of patents.

JCM 11/12/2025 10:57:59 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 6:

That's what I was thinking... patent for "things".
Looking for confirmation.

vxbush 11/12/2025 11:33:08 AM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: "Copyrights on the virus?"  Patents, maybe, but "copyrights?"

Sorry. Yes, you're probably right. Parts of the virus have been copyrighted since at least 2013, I believe it is. (I know the two terms aren't synonymous, but my brain keeps both terms in the same bin.)