MSNBC -- Glitterati vs. Geeks
Lessig is trying to overturn the incredibly long copyright extension Act that Disney's "Save Mickey Mouse" political donations enacted.

"The most recent of 11 extensions of copyright terms, it stretches exclusive control of a work from 50 to 70 years after the creator’s death (thus assuring that the estate of the bill’s namesake, the late pop singer turned legislator, will garner royalties on “I Got You Babe” until 2068). Commercial works like films get a straight 95 years. Because the bill lengthened the term of “Steamboat Willie,” Walt Disney’s first cartoon featuring the company mascot, it was nicknamed the Mickey Mouse Preservation Act. But it also denies free access to every film made in the 1930s and early ’40s, as well as innumerable books and songs."