Japan’s case is very interesting already, but if a large economy comes out with a more restrictive ruling then that’s the law most international companies will end up sticking by. Disney isn’t going to risk losing copyright in the rest of the world just because Japanese law would permit them to use AI, for example.

I agree that this would be a bad precedent. Personally, I think the way AI companies have gotten away with things that would obviously be crimes if they couldn’t hide behind their magical neural networks has become too much of a problem to ignore.