Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR judgment ought to doom NYT’s OpenAI suit
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Microsoft prompted a federal court to dismiss part of The New York Times' copyright suit versus itself and OpenAI, declaring that the NYT suit resembles the motion picture market's efforts to eliminate the VCR in the 1980s.
Microsoft's filing in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York starts with a widely known 1982 quote from Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) President Jack Valenti, who informed Congress that "the VCR is to the American movie manufacturer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the female home alone."
"The example belonged to a full-blown effort by tv and film manufacturers to stop a groundbreaking brand-new innovation," Microsoft composed the other day, comparing the f...