As reported on News.com: In a lecture organized by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, a (very) prominent prominent and conservative legal scholar, sharply criticized expansions of copyright law such as the Copyright Terms Extension Act. He also criticized the patent office's trend of granting overly broad patents for business methods.
Read the article (with plenty of interesting details from Posner's speech) here.