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Green Bay Packers, Inc. has no owners. Every other team is owned through a business organization, but no one refers to those organizations as the owner, they r

Green Bay Packers, Inc. has no owners. Every other team is owned through a business organization, but no one refers to those organizations as the owner, they refer to the private individual billionaires (ie no one says the Kraft Group is the owner of the Patriots, they refer to Robert Kraft as the owner. Or Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks). No one would argue in good faith they are not the owners. Your personal attacks are sad, FYI I am a lawyer.

greenbaythrow 5y ago
So what entity owns the intellectual property associated with the team, like the uniform design? What entity countersigns a player’s contract? Who pays the Internet bill at the Packers head office? “The commonwealth of Green Bay represented by its quarter million shareholders?” There’s a board. And an entity. It’s a regular public company. It’s not like the hippies got together and founded the world’s most lax corporate governance in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It’s a corporation. Probably a C, but I’m too lazy to look. Come on, man. They have broadcast rights and multi-million dollar contracts. That’s simply not handled by a cooperative community water board with a treasurer. Yes, they’re publicly owned. But they’re owned. Formally, you know who the owners of a corporation are, and you know just as well as I do that the answer is not “nobody”. You’re turning linguistic semantics into legal concepts, your esquireness, and leaning into the ambiguity of the word “owner”. And you’re really laying on this “I can’t possibly be wrong on a forum full of Node.js hackers” schtick you’re doing when challenged on any point. It’s okay to be wrong. Happens to all of us. (Hint: you’re projecting the personal attack. Hope you don’t argue trial with that inability to read your counterparty.)
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greenbaythrow 5y ago

So what entity owns the intellectual property associated with the team, like the uniform design? What entity countersigns a player’s contract? Who pays the Internet bill at the Packers head office? “The commonwealth of Green Bay represented by its quarter million shareholders?” There’s a board. And an entity. It’s a regular public company. It’s not like the hippies got together and founded the world’s most lax corporate governance in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It’s a corporation. Probably a C, but I’m too lazy to look. Come on, man. They have broadcast rights and multi-million dollar contracts. That’s simply not handled by a cooperative community water board with a treasurer. Yes, they’re publicly owned. But they’re owned. Formally, you know who the owners of a corporation are, and you know just as well as I do that the answer is not “nobody”. You’re turning linguistic semantics into legal concepts, your esquireness, and leaning into the ambiguity of the word “owner”. And you’re really laying on this “I can’t possibly be wrong on a forum full of Node.js hackers” schtick you’re doing when challenged on any point. It’s okay to be wrong. Happens to all of us. (Hint: you’re projecting the personal attack. Hope you don’t argue trial with that inability to read your counterparty.)

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