Yeah. It's not used to protect the little guy anyway. It gets even more stupid when they use it to ban people from buying seeds and regrowing crops, forcing them to rely on the company for the seeds each harvest.

I mean someone could make the argument that if you created a product, a another company could copy you and sell it, utilizing their brand and capability to produce the same product for less, and push you out the market by just making more of it, so your product doesn't appear on the shelves but do we ever see that happening? There's loads of books in the open domain and I've yet to hear about this phenomenon there.

This book (see pic) I've been reading covers this. There's a great chapter at the beginning about how advancements with the steam engine were held back due to copyright.