Microsoft will pay legal damages on behalf of customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems, the company said on Thursday.
if a third party sues a commercial customer for copyright infringement for using Microsoft’s Copilots or the output they generate, we will defend the customer and pay the amount of any adverse judgments or settlements that result from the lawsuit
It doesn’t address lost revenue or any other blow back from having to take down your content but it does say they will pay any judgement/settlement costs.
What happens if the customers is found to be infringing, and is also forced to cease and desist, so delete code generated by Copilot?
Or if their code is mandated to be open sourced to comply with the GPL?
It doesn’t address lost revenue or any other blow back from having to take down your content but it does say they will pay any judgement/settlement costs.
good question