Why does writing about the acts of others apply a layer of ownership when the impetus was the act of another? Without them the journalist has nothing. All GPT4

Why does writing about the acts of others apply a layer of ownership when the impetus was the act of another? Without them the journalist has nothing. All GPT4 is doing is writing about the act of your writing, same way a journalist only creates from the act of another, would make sense if the individuals the journo writes about got paid a percentage for the act that caused the writing. Seems hypocritical to claim the chain of writing about ends with you when you have nothing without others first acting when the page was blank.