when Lessig argued Eldred v Ashcroft before the Supreme Court, the argument went something like: the Constitution states that copyrights are to be granted for a &quot;limited time&quot;; if Congress can pass an unlimited number of finite extensions to the copyright period, this flouts the original meaning and is unconstitutional. alas, the majority bought into the government&#x27;s argument that this most recent extension was (again) to bring US law in &quot;harmonization&quot; with EU law, and was so permitted.<p>BUT, iirc, there was some grumbling along the lines of &quot;if they try this again, Lessig&#x27;s argument will carry more weight&quot;.<p>so it will be interesting to see what happens next time around.