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Corporations, CDs and Click Thru Licensing Loopholes? 32  Posted
by Cliff from the things-that-make-you-go-"hmmmm..." dept. oh
the irony! asks: "The way the current legal/political/economic
climate favors corporations and industry associations like the
MPAA and RIAA in questions of intellectual property and
copyright troubles me. But it has occurred to me that these
tools could be used against the RIAA etc. The RIAA says peer to
peer services like Napster were illegal because one person buys
a CD and rips it so that a person who doesn't own it can listen
to it. So...what if a Corporation buys a CD? Specifically, a
corporation is legally a person and can own intellectual
property as well as other property. If people are members of a
corporation they can then legally use the corporation's
property. I am not a lawyer but maybe Slashdot readers could
tell me if my idea is legally possible or workable. It would be
poetic justice to use Click through lic