Two similar cases the article looks at: 1. Universal Studios v. Sony, 1984: your VCRs are letting people copy our movies. 2. Authors' Guild v. Google, 2005: y

Two similar cases the article looks at: 1. Universal Studios v. Sony, 1984: your VCRs are letting people copy our movies. 2. Authors' Guild v. Google, 2005: your Google Books are reproducing our copyrighted works. In both cases, the lawsuits were dismissed. If this New York Times lawsuit is similar, then it doesn't look good for NYT. But are they really similar?