"The patent office has tightened its rules in recent years and has declared that some kinds of DNA are not patentable. What's a biotech company to do? Take a page from Tin Pan Alley, perhaps. An executive with one Silicon Valley company is now suggesting that DNA sequences be converted to digital music, arguing that they might then be protected under copyright law."

Don't like the intellectual property rules that apply to you? If you can turn it into music it will never go into the public domain!