If it is old enough, odds are someone has sampled it.
Imagine if someone secretly sent samples of your DNA to one of many companies that promise to tell you what your genes say about you.
So a TP user could phone up from a Venue and leave a voice review for that venue – useful if someone wants to sample the atmosphere.
If someone asks for samples of your art and claims that the stuff in your gallery isn't good enough, do not give them free art; 9 out of 10 times it's a scam.
Researchers developing cell lines must investigate and disclose any restrictions associated with the human or other tissue they are using, particularly if someone else collected the samples, if the samples come from multiple clinical sources or if they come from several legal jurisdictions.
As for the song, if someone asks Mr. Dylan for sampling rights, it would be only fair to grant them.
My email contacts (venture capitalists, startup founders, bloggers) are a skewed and terrible sample (if someone has friends they could introduce me to, that would be great), but the tech world shapes workplace trends across industries and across the world.
This means that, in principle, if someone had a DNA sample from a participant in a study stored in GEO, they could devise a SNP barcode, match it to a GEO sample, and look at that participant's biological data.
The test could not, however, determine if someone had tampered with the urine sample or was negligent.
Wouldn't it be great if someone could just bring you a sample size of tissue, a couple of Sudafeds and some throat lozenges?
