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Microsoft invokes VCRs in motion to dismiss The New York Times’ AI lawsuit
Copyright lawsuits could redirect the future of generative AI.
“Despite The Times’s contentions, copyright law is no more an obstacle to large language model than it was to the VCR (or the player piano, copy machine, personal computer, internet or search engine),” reads one passage. Ian Crosby, partner at Susman Godfrey and lead counsel for the Times, tells The Verge that Microsoft did not dispute that it worked with OpenAI to copy the publication’s stories. Microsoft noted other generative AI lawsuits that used the same argument as the Times had those claims dismissed,like one brought by authors including Sarah Silverman,
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