No, that's exactly the opposite of your point. The history of thought would not be the same with or without Ulysses, we would not be more or less the same with

No, that's exactly the opposite of your point. The history of thought would not be the same with or without Ulysses, we would not be more or less the same with enough Danielle Steel. And books are not special, many other forms of human expression deserve this kind of protection.