[logfromblammo]

If you want to copyright an organism, you had damned well better remove its ability to copy itself without your permission first.

As much of the utility in modified organisms is that they do copy themselves without your help, it seems as though the patent system would be much better suited, because there the enforcement burden is to prevent a human from using the organism to accomplish a specific purpose.

People sometimes forget that laws are pointless if they are not enforceable.

[aeorgnoieang]

> People sometimes forget that laws are pointless if they are not enforceable.

Or worse than pointless; actively harmful.