Wow, I was really cranky there. Sorry about that :-(

- Alan


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Alan Millar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Innacuracies?  Snort.  If we're talking about what we all know, we all
> know that legal status doesn't determine what people do, how they act,
> how they write, and how they wish to abscribe responsibility and
> credit.  People do things in groups, and the membership and
> participation in the group can mutate over the duration of the work's
> creation process.  This is a regular human activity, regardless of how
> the group is labelled by its members or others.  Absurd legal fictions
> like corporate personhood have little relevance to this common
> process.
>
> Terms like "corporate body" may have a different definition or
> connotation in the legal sphere than in the library science sphere.
> It probably has other connotations in other contexts also.  That
> doesn't make it intrinsically wrong.  It just means it needs
> definition for the context.
>
> - Alan
>
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