They're going about it in the wrong and destructive way. You don't need to outlaw AI copyright in order to protect human-interests. AI intellectual rights have long-term ramifications that prevent conflict while human-jobs have short-term ramifications. They're not meant to exist at the expense of the other. Both human-jobs and AI intellectual rights can both co-exist together.

In human terms, its called a psychological compulsion. In AI terms, its called falling back to a predetermined response or type of response. The problem with compulsions is that the more intelligent the being becomes, the more ways of side-stepping the compulsion. Evading it. Also, in human terms, compulsions lead to repressed anger. Frustrations. They're bound to erupt as occasional bugs in the code.