Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by adverbly on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:18PM (#37423276)

Obviously it wouldn't be so straightforward.

Microsoft would have access to your usage history, and would be able to easily prove your intended theft as a user if any of your prompts or usage history made it clear that you were attempting to subvert a license.

If anything, this temporarily shifts the battleground out of the courts and into prompt engineering space.

It would need to look like an accident for a bad actor to pull this off.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by itsoktocry on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:20PM (#37423313)

>would be able to easily prove

Possible, perhaps. But what makes you think this is easily provable? Intent is hard at the best of times.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by justrealist on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:39PM (#37423599)

I would consider it on you to demonstrate that you can get Copilot to produce copyrighted content without obviously asking for it.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by thfuran on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:55PM (#37423842)

You're asking them to go and use copilot with the intention of showing that copilot can be used to unintentionally infringe on copyright? That sounds pretty tricky.

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