But I'd like the licence payer to know I paid for it myself.
"It is fair to say that [Big Pharma] doesn't like compulsory licences at all," says Shalden. "It is also fair to say that they tend to exaggerate the use and effect of those things, because they would like to have complete control over how their property is used".
Lyons attacked the government over its refusal to ask viewers and listeners if they would like to see licence fee money earmarked to meet the cost of digital switchover returned to them.
Instead, they are asking for fewer and better consultants and setting them to work alongside their own staff.In short, consulting is looking less like a licence to print money and more like temporary labour.
But does this give casual visitors like me licence to carouse in this devil's playground?
The prospect of offsetting in this case looks to me like the "licence to destroy" that the government warned against.
His call to reopen the fiscal pact looks like a licence for fiscal sin.Mr Hollande says he does not seek a "full rewrite".
It's like a licence to sneer now, but maybe one day being a chav will be something to aspire to.
"Like the licence fee, the present electoral system is not fit for purpose, the first past the post system just doesn't work.
