[Cdn-DMCA] TPM and the End User

[Kristofer Coward]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:18:27PM -0500, Jason Young wrote:
> Kris, you're thinking of an independent artist - say a musician - who 
> does not have a distribution deal, etc. I would agree with you that 
> TPM does not give these people more power than they had or did not 
> have before. But most content in the marketplace is created by 
> corporations or, if not that, then individuals with distribution 
> deals with large corporations.

Corporations are legal fictions and as such, are incapable of creating
anything. All they can do is claim credit for the creations of their
employees. It would be sencible to argue on these grounds, that
corporations should be prohibited from holding copyrights of any sort
(though they could hold licenses, even exclusive licenses to the
copyrights of individuals)

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