The Public Domain

James Boyle,  from the Duke Center for the Public Domain, wrote a book about Copyright law entitled The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. His ability of express these views have been compared the Lessig. Not only is this book articulate but Boyle makes it thoughtful and funny. Also James talked his publisher,Yale University Press, into offering the book as free, CC-licensed download. The preface was posted on the blog here is a quote "Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my student it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a 'Sealed Crustless Sandwich.' In the curiously mangled form of English that Patent law produces, it was described this way: 

A sealed crustless sandwich for providing a convenient sandwich without an outer crust which can be stored for long periods of time without a central filling from leaking outwardly. The sandwich includes a lower bread portion, an upper bread portion, an upperfilling and a lower filling between the lower and upper bread portions, a center filling sealed between the upper and lower fillings, and a crimped edge along an outer perimeter of the bread portions for sealing the filling there between. the upper and lower fillings are preferably comprised of peanut butter and the center filling is comprised of at least jelly. The center filling is prevented from radiating outwardly into and through the bread portions from the surrounding peanut butter."