top | item 43403601 (no title) kopecs | 11 months ago In what way do you think corporate personhood is relevant here? discuss order hn newest pnut|11 months ago Obviously corporations are a legal fiction and not biological human entities with inherent intelligence and agency.They are tools to enable the wills of specific human beings, so the comparison seems fair? kopecs|11 months ago What comparison do you think the parent comment is making? They just vaguely gesture at corporate personhood and say "what about that?"My best reading of it is "can 'they' say that corporations can author works?" and excepting works for hire, no, "they" can't.
pnut|11 months ago Obviously corporations are a legal fiction and not biological human entities with inherent intelligence and agency.They are tools to enable the wills of specific human beings, so the comparison seems fair? kopecs|11 months ago What comparison do you think the parent comment is making? They just vaguely gesture at corporate personhood and say "what about that?"My best reading of it is "can 'they' say that corporations can author works?" and excepting works for hire, no, "they" can't.
kopecs|11 months ago What comparison do you think the parent comment is making? They just vaguely gesture at corporate personhood and say "what about that?"My best reading of it is "can 'they' say that corporations can author works?" and excepting works for hire, no, "they" can't.
pnut|11 months ago
They are tools to enable the wills of specific human beings, so the comparison seems fair?
kopecs|11 months ago
My best reading of it is "can 'they' say that corporations can author works?" and excepting works for hire, no, "they" can't.