[nylug-talk] Copyright

[Michael Bacarella]

> >Dunno, a death penalty for corporations?  :-P
> 
> Actually that was hotly debated during the Industrial Revolution. I learned 
> only recently that New Jersey, where I live, had laws on the books in the 
> early 1800s that not only rejected the concept of corporations but banned 
> them. The complaint was that corporations, granted the same legal rights as 
> people, were an immoral artificiality and a violation of God's natural law.
> 
> I can turn my head from this keyboard and look out one window towards the 
> long black Pulaski Skyway, dominating the spoiled river and meadows it 
> vaults across. I see what they were afraid of.  But then I turn back to 
> this screen and its Internet connection, glad that they lost the debate. 

Not to nitpick, but I'm confused.

What do either of those things have to do with the legal status of Corporations?

-M