The Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in the challenge to the 1998 copyright extension act. CNN's article about it is online at: Supreme Court takes up future of Mickey Mouse, other classics in copyright case http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/10/09/scotus.copyrights.ap/index.html Besides Mickey Mouse, the copyright extension act kept at least several important Twain books from entering the public domain: Europe and Elsewhere (1923), Mark Twain's Speeches (1923), and Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924). Jim Zwick