“We are charging our commercial customers for our Copilots, and if their use creates legal issues, we should make this our problem rather than our customers’ problem.”
Microsoft will defend paying Copilot customers in copyright suits and cover the judgments. The fine print requires them to use Microsoft’s content filters and not feed in material they lack rights to. Free users get nothing. The authors whose work trained the models get a paragraph of sympathy, and the customers get a lawyer.