The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is... chairing the committee that approved the first research licence to create a human/animal hybrid embryo.
And more historic progress has been made this week as the UK's fertility regulator gave the green light for clinics to seek licences to create embryos with the DNA of three people, an experimental technique developed to help women with mitochondrial mutations have healthy babies.
The high-profile Oracle-Google trial, over whether Google needed a licence to create Android (a horse long since bolted) points to a somewhat cavalier approach within the company to copyright and licensing; Google cannot point to any high-level meeting where it worked through in detail whether it was entirely in the right to rework Java.
Could it be they've used our licence fee to create a vast subliminal introduction to the tarot?
ITV has proposed "top slicing" the BBC licence fee to create a pot of tens of millions of pounds that rivals could bid for to help fund their news services.
The idea of taxing companies at their place of residence rather than where the economic activity takes place gave them a licence to create artificial entities.
There is something palliative about the way that outfits such as Assemble are given a licence to create delightful moments of public space, but kept away from the decisions that really shape cities.
The proposal is for the new system to draw on official photos, including driver's licence and passport photos, to create a database.
Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix, had suggested that the BBC's invention of the iPlayer may have unwittingly brought about the end of the licence fee, by helping to create a new generation of people who only watch TV over the internet.
String is currently working with partners such as Boeing, Fujitsu, Audi, Ford of Canada and Paramount, the latter being part of the Transformers 3 campaign, as well as offering developers a £79 licence to create content for themselves.
