[WalterBright]

Rowling is quite an outlier - 1% of 1% of 1%. While a fascinating example, it seems unoptimal to center copyright protection laws around her experience.

[icebraining]

She's only an obvious outlier after the fact, though; protecting all authors because they are potential outliers is a perfectly valid goal.

[WalterBright]

Optimizing a system for the 1% of 1% of 1% is not the greatest good.

[icebraining]

Not if your goal is to help the greatest number of authors, but it might be if your goal is to help the greatest number of readers. Since a single book can be enjoyed by many, it's arguably better to have a single book that is very liked than one thousand books that nobody really likes to read.