[bernb]

Put 10,000 hours into writing a book. Watch somebody with more resources or media coverage take full credits for it and/or make money instead of yourself. Copyright is a good thing. Same principle applies to the core of similar laws.

[bigyabai]

Copyright can be a good or bad thing, it doesn't stop businesses from arguing fair/transformative use, and winning in many cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

[puppycodes]

but literally no one is doing that in this scenario so... huh? Also the number of hours you put into a thing does not make it valuable.

[pllbnk]

No one is taking credit, but no one is giving credit either, which is nearly the same.

Also, to your second point, when you (speaking of any regular person) put in the number of hours, it might not be valuable. When the domain expert puts in the same number of hours, it might be very valuable.