JK Rowling interviewed on Richard and Judy (part 1/4) 

Wasn't exactly shocking though was it.

well, the interview took place when 6 books were out, so it was quite predictable

Why did you copyright your work on tumblr in 2011?

Having created hundreds of stories and hundreds of inventions designs, all well designed and set-out on paper and filed in my ring-binder files in my home I was the copyright holder of that work. As I was unemployed after sustaining a lower-back injury during my Military service I kept to myself and created thousands of drawings and those drawings were often pictures worthy of publishing but money was not growing on my money tree that I had near my back door. My second story I named The Lion King and my surname "Simcock" was the basis for the creation of the name of the young lion in that story. Simba therefore was the young lion who would eventually become the King in the story I created. When it came time for me to create a name for my third story my money was very short in supply, being on a veteran's pension, and so I wrote the word MONEY on my drawing pad. I decided to write words from the letters that made up the word MONEY but to make the process easier than writing many words on paper that had no meaning I tore a page of print from a magazine and used the letters that made up the title page of large font and cut the letters to form the word MONEY. As I pushed those letters around the pad I had resting on my lap I had difficulty in setting them in line and so I took a wooden letter-board from a game of Monopoly I had, which had no cover and was next to the chair in which I was sitting, and set the letters I had cut from a title page of a TV Guide and removed letter Y. I done so because I did not see a need for-to-have a question as to why I needed money for having created so many stories and Inventions. I just wanted my efforts in creating so many things and stories to bring me a financial reward and as that would include money I needed no question of how much money I would receive for my efforts in creating things over about thirty years and so I had remaining on the letter block four letters. They read MONE and although I saw that as Money for One, me, it was not suitable as a title for a story about a disobedient little fish and so I mused over my work for a while and then moved the first two letters over to the opposite side and in doing so I formed the word NEMO. It sounded unusual but with my need to find money from the publishing of my story I settled for Finding NEMO. After my work on my inventions and stories getting stolen from my home I have never received one cent of money from it or of the revenue-streams created from the sales of my inventions and stories. It would have been futile for me to have made claims for copyright infringement after such a large number of drawings got stolen from my home. I resided on the fact that the original creator of any work, regardless of what that work is, has the rights of copyright inherent in that word. Unfortunately the copyright holder cannot stop the act of theft and plagiarism. My stories and Inventions soon were being made into a myriad of novels and products and sold to the unsuspecting people across the world. That left me unknown as other authors and inventors became known for what were really my creations. Joanne Rowling is one of those people who has infringed upon my original stories by writing some of them up into novels and having them published but doing so has left me the most unknown author while Joanne Rowling has become known to me as the most well-paid plagiarist. When I created the story-board for The Lion King story production I formed my writers name J. K. Rawling with my initials of my parents and letter K of my surname. J.K.R

Greg Simcock You are on RU-vid talking about your achievements instead of directly interacting with J K Rowling...that pretty much explains everything!