You're creating a false dichotomy. No plausible copyright reform requires filing notices for every forum comment or line of code. Lines of code : Form a corpor

You're creating a false dichotomy. No plausible copyright reform requires filing notices for every forum comment or line of code. Lines of code : Form a corporation, non profit entity or business, then pay a yearly copyright fee and transfer all code written to the business. The cost is proportional to the value of the copyright; if it's a small or unprofitable business the fee could be waived. HN comments : the copyright is worthless anyway, people repost content all the time. To my knowledge no one has ever been sued over it. Books and other publications : The publishers will pay for the copyright fee. Writers could be automatically covered for a grace period before publication with no fee, say one year. These are all hypothetical,the point is you are immediately going to an extreme without considering what actual, plausible reform would entail.