We all heard several years ago about the cloning of a sheep in England. That sheep was called, affectionately, Dolly, and she appeared to be a genetic clone of the original donor. To say the least, this was scientifically fascinating yet ethically questionable.
Recently we have noted other types of 'cloning', right here in our own little genetic genealogy market. The first was noted several months ago by Louis Loccisano, who mentioned that copyryghted verbiage, posted to our DEMO area of Family Tree DNA had been copied and pasted directly into Ybase's site located in England. Further on, their demo site had copied, well, cloned, other info from our page listed under a scroll down menu called "Any additional Haplogroup info". When Louis pointed out the "Dollization" of our Copyrighted material, a small change was made (think of a single base pair mutation).
In the last few days another customer brought to our attention that a much more flagrant version of 'cloning' has taken place. We've taken the time to capture a few images and make a side by side comparison for you. Without spending much time on the legal aspects, but essentially focusing on the ethical side of this, we thought we'd show you the effects of another "cloning" attempt and a good one at that! Since Dolly's DNA was from a relative, the exact source material of Dolly was readily known and the authentication of the "cloning" was easily verifiable. I think you'll agree in this case the 'source' is identifiable as well, even though it's not a relative (well, OK, it is some sort of Relative...)
We have created a couple of web pages in our test directory, and we are not planning for it to become part of our web site. For now, we are just giving you those links for your amusement and also for you to know how to react if someone tells you that they found one of you as a Group Administrator at another company's web site...
Please take a few minutes to look at these images to see how far cloning can go
http://www.ftdna.com/test/testimonials_new.html (on this page, read the first paragraph, and click on the link that will take you to the next page)
Here are the real links (of course, unless they take them down...)
For "my" project: http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2432
For the "Alcorn" Project:http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2032
For the "Glennon" Project:http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2007
Have you been cloned recently, too?
What are your thoughts about it?
Recently we have noted other types of 'cloning', right here in our own little genetic genealogy market. The first was noted several months ago by Louis Loccisano, who mentioned that copyryghted verbiage, posted to our DEMO area of Family Tree DNA had been copied and pasted directly into Ybase's site located in England. Further on, their demo site had copied, well, cloned, other info from our page listed under a scroll down menu called "Any additional Haplogroup info". When Louis pointed out the "Dollization" of our Copyrighted material, a small change was made (think of a single base pair mutation).
In the last few days another customer brought to our attention that a much more flagrant version of 'cloning' has taken place. We've taken the time to capture a few images and make a side by side comparison for you. Without spending much time on the legal aspects, but essentially focusing on the ethical side of this, we thought we'd show you the effects of another "cloning" attempt and a good one at that! Since Dolly's DNA was from a relative, the exact source material of Dolly was readily known and the authentication of the "cloning" was easily verifiable. I think you'll agree in this case the 'source' is identifiable as well, even though it's not a relative (well, OK, it is some sort of Relative...)
We have created a couple of web pages in our test directory, and we are not planning for it to become part of our web site. For now, we are just giving you those links for your amusement and also for you to know how to react if someone tells you that they found one of you as a Group Administrator at another company's web site...
Please take a few minutes to look at these images to see how far cloning can go
http://www.ftdna.com/test/testimonials_new.html (on this page, read the first paragraph, and click on the link that will take you to the next page)
Here are the real links (of course, unless they take them down...)
For "my" project: http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2432
For the "Alcorn" Project:http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2032
For the "Glennon" Project:http://66.235.201.45:8085/relativege...fo.jsp?g=G2007
Have you been cloned recently, too?
What are your thoughts about it?
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