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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by WalterBright on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:05PM (#23002179)
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.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by icebraining on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:31AM (#23004926)
She's only an obvious outlier after the fact, though; protecting all authors because they are potential outliers is a perfectly valid goal.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by WalterBright on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:52AM (#23005047)
Optimizing a system for the 1% of 1% of 1% is not the greatest good.
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Re:Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not cop... by icebraining on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:33AM (#23005581)
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.
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