Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman on AI

Fair use is not granted by a “social contract” — it’s granted by a court. It’s a legal defense that allows some uses of copyrighted material once that court weighs what you’re copying, why, how much, and whether it’ll harm the copyright owner. www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware Microsoft's AI CEO: it is ok for us to steal all your content and data

This seems a dubious and ill-informed reading of copyright. Just because something is made available for free does NOT mean it's free of copyright www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/microsoft_ceo_ai/

"Microsoft is currently the target of multiple lawsuits [...] so it may not surprise you to hear a Microsoft exec defend it as perfectly legal (stealing copyrighted online stories). I just didn’t expect him to be so very publicly and obviously wrong!" www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware