The agreement grants Microsoft an irrevocable, royalty-free right to use, commercialize, and create derivative works from any feedback, ideas, suggestions, or proposals submitted by users, for any purpose, without obligation or compensation to the user. Users are restricted from submitting feedback that carries open-source or copyleft licensing obligations.
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This provision establishes that all feedback submitted to Microsoft, including product ideas and improvement suggestions, may be used and commercialized by Microsoft without compensation or attribution. The restriction on copyleft-licensed feedback is relevant for organizations whose employees participate in beta programs or submit product feedback.
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Compare across platforms →"If you give to Microsoft any idea, proposal, suggestion or feedback, including without limitation ideas for new products, technologies, promotions, product names, product feedback and product improvements ("Feedback"), you give to Microsoft, without charge, royalties or other obligation to you, the right to make, have made, create derivative works, use, share and commercialize your Feedback in any way and for any purpose. You will not give Feedback that is subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software, technologies or documentation to any third party because Microsoft includes your Feedback in them.Excerpt from Microsoft Copilot's Terms of Service
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This feedback license provision is a standard commercial practice for technology platforms; however, the intellectual property implications may interact with employer IP assignment agreements where employees submit feedback on behalf of or …
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This provision establishes that all feedback submitted to Microsoft, including product ideas and improvement suggestions, may be used and commercialized by Microsoft without compensation or attribution. The restriction on copyleft-licensed feedback is relevant for organizations whose employees participate in beta programs or submit product feedback.
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