Haiku in the news (duck!)

Spam killing Haikus come to Europe

"Habeas' patent-pending service works by trademarking and copyrighting a unique 
set of lines, known as the warrant mark, which is embedded in the headers of 
outgoing email. Included is a haiku, a 17-syllable Japanese poem. 

Copyright offers legal protection to the poetry. Trademark offers legal 
protection to other parts of the email header."

http://www.theregus.com/content/6/26242.html