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Given a nation* that decides "corporations are people" and "money is speech", let's not be unduly optimistic about (even temporary) legislation or interpretation.

* focusing on the US given this site and the outsized influence it has on global copyright

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Corporate personhood is a common legal practice, where necessary the law distinguishes between "persons" and "natural persons".

That's the same in the US/UK/AU/NZ/CA/DE/JP/IN.

The difference in the US is that SCOTUS basically made it impossible to restrict corporate spending on politics. That is what needs to be fixed in the US, not Corporate Personhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

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