US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

> Minnesota woman to pay $220,000 fine for 24 illegally downloaded songs [1]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota... [1]

How is this relevant?

>The RIAA accused her of downloading and distributing more than 1,700 music files on file-sharing site KaZaA

Emphasis mine. I think most people would agree that whatever AI companies are doing with training AI models is different than sending verbatim copies to random people on the internet.

Who knew alls she needed was to change the tempo, pitch, timbre, add/remove lyrics, add/subtract a few notes, rearrange harmony, put it behind a web portal with a fancy name, claim it had an inspirational muse or assume all mortal beings as being without one in the first place so it doesn't matter, and proceed to make millions off of said process methodically rather than giving it away for free, and she'd be right as rain.