... The victory
of the litigants in the many pending lawsuits against AI companies may lead
to legal regimes that ultimately impose ruinous monetary damages, allow
the extraction of burdensome settlements, and in extreme cases result in the
court-ordered destruction of AI models themselves. All would do great harm to
the emerging market of products and services leveraging the technology."

fascinating, articulate, and worth thinking about.

"Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition" from Foundation for American Innovation

concluding: "The legal battles around AI and copyright raise the specter that a domestic,
commercial squabble of interests might prevent the United States from
retaining its edge in the global competition around the technology. ....

important report: "Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition" from Foundation for American Innovation

Section titles: "Getting Copyright Wrong Means Falling behind China"

"Copyright Maximalism Supports Chinese Model Developers
and the CCP’s AI Ambitions"

They write off Europe in AI presumably because of their copyright regulations.

https://www.thefai.org/posts/copyright-ai-and-great-power-competition