I wonder if these authors would have complained so loudly if they had known that other artists were looking at their output to learn how to create their own wor

I wonder if these authors would have complained so loudly if they had known that other artists were looking at their output to learn how to create their own work? Absolutely none of them sprung from the womb, tablet in hand, to create their work ex nihilo, based on nothing other than their own entirely original thoughts.