If someone dedicated their life to studying these styles and practiced drawing like them day in and day out, would you also say they committed theft? What if they blended the learned styles into new styles? Still theft? What about all of the artists who did exactly that and we have been building on for decades/centuries?
I do not equate copyright infringement with theft. That’s some grade A bullshit.
That sounds like consumer BRD disks not what businesses buy to produce copies of a new movie they are releasing.