Authenticating Art With Bioengineered DNA: The IP Issues

Law360, New York ( November 2, 2015, 11:43 AM EST) -- Recently making the rounds in the media circuit are reports on a fascinating new authentication system that would allow living artists to effectively "sign" their artworks with very small amounts of synthetic DNA. [1] This new authentication system is encompassed more broadly within "i2M," a new standards-based technology that is uniquely developed to provide an industrywide solution to the long-standing problem of faked, forged and stolen art in the art world. [2] This article provides an overview of the i2M Standards and addresses the legal implications of the i2M Standards technology from an intellectual property perspective. . . .

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