Microsoft seeks dismissal of New York Times copyright lawsuit, FT reports

Microsoft (MSFT) has filed a motion to dismiss The New York Times’ (NYT) copyright lawsuit, accusing it of “doomsday futurology” for predicting that ChatGPT could ruin the news business, The Financial Times’ Joe Miller and George Hammond report. Microsoft, which has committed $13B to OpenAI, likened the Times to Hollywood studios that sought to stop the introduction of the VCR in the 1980s, and hold back a “groundbreaking new technology.” The New York Times is seeking billions of dollars in damages, but Microsoft is arguing that the copyright law is “no more an obstacle to the than it was to the VCR (or the player piano, copy machine, personal computer, internet, or search engine).”