Microsoft Sees Low Risk for Customers in AI Copyright Lawsuits

Microsoft’s promise to defend customers from copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its Copilot artificial intelligence tools likely won’t require a mass deployment of its lawyers.

The company believes its systems are unlikely to produce content that so closely copies its source material that it violates copyright, a legal executive at the company told Bloomberg Law after a Sept. 7 announcement.

Legal professionals largely agreed that the risk of customers facing a copyright infringement suit related to AI’s outputs was low—though generative AI platforms themselves still face a substantial legal reckoning over the inputs, or material that went into training ...