Remember that business about a student suing the architect of the new Freedom Tower on the World Trade Centre site? Brian Micklethwaite comments here, and very interesting it is, too.
While on the intellectual property front, interested readers might wish to note that Marvel Comics (creators of Spider-man, the Hulk, the X-Men and Daredevil) are suing the companies behind the online game City of Heroes, on the basis that the game can be used to recreate their characters, despite the fact that doing so is against the game's terms and conditions. Students might want to discuss the possibility of Marvel extending its efforts to manufacturers of pen and paper, for example.
Adam
Thanks for the kind words, and thanks also for that link to the Marvel Comics thing.
You and your readers might be interested in what Michael Jennings had to say in an email to me (which I put up at my Culture Blog - http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture) about the, er, sharing of scientific ideas. Interestingly, he says that the Nobel Prize people are very good at finding out who actually did the work and rewarding them accordingly. I had suggested otherwise.