So as long as you can find (or bribe) one country that will let you skate by, you think it's fair game to just declare that your model's country of residence, then take all the images you want and put out your trained model to the whole world?

Somehow, I don't think that one's likely to fly.

Yeah. That's how countries work, they're sovereign except as bound by treaties. This is a general EU right as well, not just Germany.

Which laws are you referring to? It's the first I've heard of countries adding explicit rights for training models.

"... for non-commercial purposes only ..." seems an important limitation in the first link.