This was a great, heartfelt movie. Had some great, classic Looney Toon styled humor, but also had a lot of emotional depth. More importantly it has a message very relevant to our time:
The little guy (us) can and should stand up to giant corporations when they step out of line and harm us/society.
![This case is about, as Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science put it, “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”; SF1437, perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history.” SF1652. Defendants repeatedly copied millions of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI products. OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT wrote that “[p]ublishers” face an “existential threat” from those products, SF1466, which, he said, “are largely substitutive, period” and “will get more and more substitutive as they get better.” SF1473-74. Such admissions eviscerate Defendants’ “fair use” defense because substitution is “copyright’s bête noire.” Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 598 U.S. 508, 528 (2023). For Defendants to prevail on this defense “would,” the same Microsoft executive recognized, arguably “make a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’” SF1450.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tluaes33wqhqg72jvsxw7pfu/bafkreifjukuvml5dih2qhhrc44abstpyotn5oaart66w2ofwhr3otzno3m)
