The same is true if a company will only publish a book in a bowdlerised form, preventing the original from being read. Either the company commits to making the original form available - eg via a number of major booksellers - or the copyright enters the public domain.

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If a publisher refuses to publish books to which it owns the rights, that copyright should lapse and the rights should either return to the author - if alive - or enter the public domain. It's abhorrent that a single company can prevent a book being published.

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continually maddening that people blame "the water companies" for hosepipe bans when "the water companies" have been begging to build new reservoirs but a few retired QCs in Oxfordshire have used the entire weight of the british planning system to prevent it www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Interesting idea but worth noting: (a) £30m seems almost laughably small? (b) The largest 'community' solar project in Britain is only 42MW – planned pure commercial solar farms are literally 10x as large. (takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I wish we had more people with sensible AI opinions here, as it is making me want to go back to the skull-measuring site, as that's where most of the interesting conversation is happening.

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