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Comment My solution to this.. (Score 1) 65

A great many old works are orphaned, with difficulty in verifying ownership.

My idea would be that you must register your copyright claim on a special publicly accessible database of copyright works within 20 years of the works creation, giving your identity, clearly identifying the work, and giving clear reasons why you believe the work is your property.

Failure to do this results in the work becoming public domain. Knowingly making a fast claim should be an offence.

Oh, and lets have 50 year max for copyright, more than this makes it harder/impossible for descendants to use/publish thier parents work, not easier.
(Based on my own experience, my dad was a jazz musician..)

Comment Tiny C.. (Score 2) 28

Fabrice Bellards Tiny C Compiler is a brilliant piece of work, a very fast, light, full featured C99 compiler for x86-32/64 or Arm in about 400k or so. I still use it from time to time.

Comment greenwashing? (Score 2) 121

Sadly, this sounds like greenwashing. There are 3 trillion trees on earth, so to get anywhere near equalling that CO2 absorbsion capacity needs nearly a trillion kg of this stuff. Despite being talked about for decades, carbon capture has captured near zero CO2. Just build new wind, solar, tidal, stop burning fossil fuels and stop wasting money on this sort of thing.

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