Disney reaps what it sows

Cory Doctorow:

Disney’s being sued by a kids’ hospital that has the rights to the Peter Pan novels. The hospital says that the 1998 Sonny Bono term-extension (a law that Disney bought in order to ensure that its earliest cartoons didn’t enter the public domain) covers the Peter Pan stories and so Disney owes it royalties on a sequel that a publishing subsidiary put out. Disney says that the law doesn’t cover the Pan books — and that it should know, since it paid for that law! — and now they’re going to court.