That would be copyright law. Is this a deliberate misinterpretation of my request, or do I need to make GP clearer?

Your request is that I find you someone who has benefited from a law that makes entire professions viable?

Does this help? https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/

Or do you want a list of movie directors? Perhaps of authors of assets in asset stores for game development? Comic artists?

Do you want a Spotify playlist?

Nobody is suggesting throwing out all copyright protections.

But someone IS suggesting that people lose copyright protections over some of their works, and eventually all of them when they don't have 10 thousand dollars to pay to keep their rights per work after just 20 years.

In your analogy with this context, the publishing company can’t print the book for ten years after being approached by the author.