Compare taking snapshots with a camera.
Because some photographer somewhere can claim to have put in a lot of effort, we all get IP protection for photographs by default.
Not if they weren't taken by a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
In the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...