I'm increasingly of the opinion that the right time to try to sue LLM vendors for copyright infringement is after the bubble starts to burst. At the moment, politicians buy the line that these machines will magically cause massive economic growth (and, because politicians think the stock market reflects the economy, they even see some evidence of this). That means that they're seeing it as a choice between protecting existing industries and protecting a new major source of growth. Even ignoring the massive bribes that the industry is paying, that's a difficult choice. Big economic growth often comes with killing off existing industries, so they're weighing known slow growth (or decline) against the promise of big growth. Lawsuits now are very high risk. If the LLM vendor wins, they establish precedent. If they lose, they encourage special-case laws. It's far better strategy to sue them after the bubble starts to collapse. Given the choice between an industry that employs a load of people and one that's causing the economy to implode, politicians have a much simpler choice. Of course, this means you won't be able to get a cut of the VC bubble money. But I expect Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft to all survive the bubble bursting in some form, so there will still be a few companies with deep pockets as good targets.