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We are often warned that thanks to some fairly fanciful legal interpretation, US corporations have more human rights than some humans. If any cynical lawyers were looking to strengthen the case that companies are increasingly demonstrating personhood they could point to the recent trend of film biopics where the headline subject is a commercial product rather than a man, woman or child.

set an Oscar-winning high bar in 2010 by exploring the curdled creation of Facebook.) computer games (), Nike sneakers () and even super-spicy crisps (). If Netflix announced they had acquired global rights for it feels like no-one would bat an eyelid.

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