has the intellectual property world gone mad?

I don't really have anything to add to this - I'm speechless.

There is something very wrong with the copyright industry when we have this discussion [about English postal workers humming/whistling tunes] as part of the question of what needs licensing. Displacement of Concepts has an analysis of this post by Cory Doctorow who saw this article from last February ("We Can Work It Out" - Kim Howells Invites Musicians To Work With Government On Delivery Of The Licensing Bill), which Cory describes as: A new business-licensing scheme in the UK will allow... [bIPlog]