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Comment by jazzyjackson

3 years ago

> Saying "lie" suggests willful deception.

Consider instead the term "legal fiction", it's not so derogatory.

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xpe  3 years ago

Legal fiction is a technical term used by legal scholars. To be clear, any legal system is built from legal constructs; I'm not talking about these. A legal fiction has a markedly different meaning than lie as used in the comment two levels above (which seems to me more like a rant than a clear or convincing argument) Are you familiar with specific expert writings about claimed legal fictions in U.S. copyright law?

  • jazzyjackson  3 years ago

    thanks for the correction

    i listened to one podcast on corporate personhood and intuited that intellectual property was similar but i see what you mean