The current issue of Mother Jones has a smarty bit on IP madness: Intellectual Property Run Amok.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But I did like this:

“For including a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they’d ripped off his silent work 4′33. The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage’s piece had been pilfered.”