"No way! Hasegawa? Monogram? Tamiya? Those are serious companies...the plastic model industry absolutely DWARFS the flying models, these are big companies, with their own legal departments, and if there was any merit whatsoever to the argument of "the planes belong to the people!" they would most CERTAINLY take them to court, and win."

I'm sure that Hasagawa and Tamyia have no interest in getting involved in US copyright laws.
Besides, the fees aren't costing the companies anything, they're simply being passed on to the consumer, so there's really no business reason to fight them unless the fees get way out of hand.
I called my Senators and Representative on Friday, they only had a few calls on the subject. Oh well, just like the AMA elections, very few want to get involved. Too bad...
Jon