So if the court grants the injunction, could that serve as precedent for, say, a case against OpenAI? I’m trying to understand how/whether what Anna’s Archive is doing is different from what OpenAI is doing.
Political capital and the entire US economy is all-in on AI. Nobody is all-in on Anna's Archive and it has no political capital.
AI cannot be allowed to fail at this point; and it's likely OCLC would suffer more in the short-term if they set a successful anti-AI precedent and crash the economy as a result, so they too have an incentive to play it strategically and slowly negotiate a settlement/royalties down the line without rocking the boat.