Yeah, courts defend "public domain"!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3261

"Once the patent or copyright monopoly has expired, the public may use the invention or work at will and without attribution," Justice Scalia said.

sounds way too familiar...

The Vicar:

[...] But the real stuff of life, the creative world, that sits unattended in the corner. And try as I may, it is a space I cannot enter. At every turn, BOP, some more "stuff" comes and fills the space. It takes so much energy to man the barricades, that, even on the few moments I can protect, I have no energy to be creative. Ground into the dust. I have almost forgotten how to dream. Whimper whimper.