Microsoft pays fines if you use Copilot AI

Microsoft said it will defend buyers of its AI products from copyright infringement lawsuits, in an attempt by the company to allay doubts they may have about the use of AI Copilots in content creation.

Microsoft Copilot’s copyright pledge will protect customers as long as they “use the guardrails and content filters that we have built into our products,” said Hussein Noubar, general counsel for corporate legal affairs and corporate secretary at Microsoft. Post on the company’s blog.

Microsoft also pledged to pay any related fines or settlements and said it had taken steps to ensure that co-pilots respect copyright.

“We want to support our customers when they use our products,” Nobar said.

“We charge our commercial customers for our co-pilots, and if using them creates legal issues, we should make that our problem, not our customers’ problem.”

Productivity AI applications collect existing content such as artwork, articles, and programming code and use them to create new materials that can simplify or automate a range of tasks.

Microsoft is adding the technology, which it developed with partner OpenAI, to many of its biggest products, such as Office and Windows, potentially exposing its customers to legal risks.