You are using misleading the word "learning" (like misusing word "piracy" for copyright violation). ML model is not a human and is unable to learn anything. Also, ML model is not a subject of law.
So your sentence should sound: "where do we draw the line between engineers of VC startups calculating model parameters by processing copyrighted content, and humans learning from codebases". Then the difference becomes obvious.
So your sentence should sound: "where do we draw the line between engineers of VC startups calculating model parameters by processing copyrighted content, and humans learning from codebases". Then the difference becomes obvious.