[d@DCC] Iraq gets Terminator seed patents

[Sydney Weidman]

Not copyright related, but may be of interest to list members:

>From "Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 81":

http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20040426_CPAORD_81_Patents_Law.pdf

pg 20

A. After registration of the variety, the following acts with respect to
the propagating material of the protected variety shall require the
authorization of the breeder:
1. production or reproduction (multiplication);
2. conditioning for the purpose of propagation;

B. 
The authorization of the breeder shall be required to carry out the acts
cited in paragraph (A) of this Article in respect of the harvested
material, including the entire plants and parts of plants obtained
through the unauthorized use of propagating material of the protected
variety, unless the breeder has had reasonable opportunity to exercise
the breeder's right in relation to the said propagating materials.

-- END -- 

Iraqis must now pay Monsanto for the privilege of planting harvested
seed.