Openlaw: Eldred v. Ashcroft provides a forum and links to information about quite an interesting case regarding the latest extension to copyrights. The author of The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig, is the attorney for the plaintiffs. Golan v. Ashcroft is a companion case.

Spider Robinson has a (free) short story called Melancholy Elephant that reflects the reductio ad absurdum of copyright gone too far, which is what will eventually happen if intellectual property is allowed to become the same thing as real property and personal property. It's not very well written, IMHO, but it won the Hugo Award in 1983.