ITunes match in shared library

When my kids were young, I bought each of them an iPod.  I set up iTunes accounts for each of them and gave them a monthly allowance to buy music.  I created a shared library on our home Mac and we each sync our iOS devices to it.  Over time our music library has grown (over 50GB) and has music from three different apple ID's (my son's, my daughter's and mine).
Now that the kids are going off to college, I would like for all of us to continue to share our library (it has helped prevent buying multiple copies of songs over the years).  I think iTunes match is a great solution to being geographically separated.
My question is this.  Can I upload our shared iTunes library from the home Mac and enable all 3 of us to access it?  Or does each apple ID in our shared library require a separate iTunes match? 
Thanks
(Our home Mac runs OS 10.7 and all our iphones run iOS 5.1)

Rentals are not shared from iTunes in the usual sense.
The rental can only live on one device at a time to prevent one copy being used on multiple machines.
You therfore have to transfer the rental to AppleTV from iTunes - I haven't done it recently but you do it through iTunes under a rentals tab (? under movies).
You can move the movie back or say to an iPod to continue watching if you don't finish it on the TV.
AC

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