I am not a big fan of copyright law, but I am still fascinated how OpenAI et caterva moved us from "Too Big to Fail" to "To Big to Arrest" without people even blinking an AI.
Where is the DMCA? Where are the FBI raids? the bankrupting legal actions that those fucking fat bastards never blinked twice before deploying against citizens?
Since you bring up US Law, I would argue:
Laws have been historically enacted to protect the few, and are not enforced with equity. Target groups receive the brunt of the enforcement while those willfully violating the law in non-target groups do not suffer consequences.
There have been times when that is not the case of course, but unfortunately those times are pretty rare and require a considerable shift in societal norms.
Oh mother. My dyslexy is through the roof today. "blinking an AI" was not a lame attempt of being funny, I really wrote this by mistake.
Oh, we only do that to skinny brokies.
You don't have a few million dollars to pay us? Fuck you and your broke parents.
American dream? I'll fucking deport your ass.