I, for one, have Serious Concerns about the monopoly JK Rowling has over the ideas in her own headhttps://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1220481483002937344 …
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.... but in practice I don't think this is worth worrying about because the possibility of piracy already acts as downward pressure on prices to keep them reasonable. ie. govts regulating media pricing is a bad idea because the pricing is "regulated" by The Pirate Bay already.
"Negative externality" is a weird take on the organic generation of a cultural schelling point but ok
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The argument may be easier to see if you substitute "JK Rowling's work" with eg. "Facebook". But I would agree that the effects in the former case are much milder than in the latter case
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I'd argue that one might sooner bite the *other* bullet than favor a world that broadly hamstrings its own ability to navigate search space for the best stuff
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This is very reminiscent of the debate between Sherwin Rosen and Moshe Adler on this subject, back in the 80s https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/Adler_1985_Stardom_and_Talent.pdf …
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HP stands as an amazing exception, but it’s often not so much organic as it is marketing prodding certain media towards hitting the power law curves.
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