That case is entirely irrelevant to what I'm saying for one simple reason: Google had obtained all of the physical books they were scanning legally. They had bo

That case is entirely irrelevant to what I'm saying for one simple reason: Google had obtained all of the physical books they were scanning legally. They had bought or borrowed at least one physical copy of every book they were scanning. What OpenAI and the others are doing, by contrast, is the equivalent of stealing every book in a book store, making a digital copy, retaining that copy, and returning the original book. This is completely and obviously illegal, and has been tested in court many times - for example in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial .