1. What the document is: Microsoft's consumer "Copilot Terms of Use" — Copilot-specific terms that supplement the general Microsoft Services Agreement, covering standalone Copilot apps, copilot.microsoft.com, Copilot Actions, Copilot Labs, and Shopping experiences. It explicitly does not apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is governed separately.

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Microsoft Copilot – Terms of Service

Dataset: GenGA (Generative AI Governance Archive) — 11 AI services, 2025–present

GenGA (Generative AI Governance Archive) is this wiki’s Generative-AI dataset: raw policy snapshots captured by the Open Terms Archive genai-eu project across 11 GenAI providers (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, DeepSeek, Google Generative AI Services, Le Chat, Llama API, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Qwen Chat, xAI). Unlike PGAv2, GenGA has no pre-tagged risk scores — all risk scoring and keyword tagging on these pages is LLM-assigned by direct reading, spanning 2025–present.

Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:

Source: sources/GenGA/Microsoft Copilot/Terms of Service/ (raw Markdown captures, Open Terms Archive genai-eu dataset — no pre-tagged JSONL exists for this source) Last updated: 2026-01-13 (content unchanged since baseline; see methodology note)

Note on methodology: No pre-computed risk_score/keyword fields exist for this source. Keyword tags and clause analysis on this page are LLM-assigned, using the same rubric/vocabulary as the PGAv2 pages plus new GenAI-specific tags (input license, improve services). Treat as first-pass analysis, not externally verified ground truth. This wiki’s risk-scoring system was retired project-wide on 2026-06-21 (see methodology.md §4) — no page, GenGA included, computes or displays a numeric risk score.

Overview

1. What the document is: Microsoft’s consumer “Copilot Terms of Use” — Copilot-specific terms that supplement the general Microsoft Services Agreement, covering standalone Copilot apps, copilot.microsoft.com, Copilot Actions, Copilot Labs, and Shopping experiences. It explicitly does not apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is governed separately.

2. Input rights: A broad, unusually candid license grant over “Your Content” (Prompts + Responses): “you grant us permission to use Your Content, which means we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate and reformat it.” The public-display/public-performance rights are notable for a private conversational-AI product — broader than most chat-assistant Content clauses in this dataset, closer to a social-media-style content license. The document states plainly: “We get to decide whether to use Your Content and we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do” — among the most direct, unqualified statements of provider discretion found in this dataset.

3. Output restrictions: None beyond standard accuracy/reliability disclaimers. Responses are explicitly stated to be non-unique: “Copilot may give the same or similar Responses and Creations to Microsoft, or to other people.”

4. Non-explicit predatory clauses: “Copilot may include advertising” — disclosed plainly, consistent with the Privacy Policy’s prompt-to-advertising pipeline. “Copilot Labs” experimental features may be modified or removed at Microsoft’s sole discretion at any time.

5. Regulatory references: None found in this document; regulatory content is handled in the separate Privacy Policy and Microsoft Services Agreement.

6. Regional variation: The minimum age to use Copilot varies by country (“usually at least 13, but sometimes 18 or older, depending on your country’s laws”). A binding-arbitration/class-action-waiver clause applies specifically to U.S.-resident users, via a reference to the Microsoft Services Agreement.

7. Key risk to users: The unusually candid “we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do” framing, combined with the public-display/public-performance rights over Content, makes this one of the broader and more frankly-worded Content license grants in this dataset — even though the actual usage purpose (“to operate Copilot and improve it”) isn’t itself unusual.

Flagged Keywords & Risks (LLM-assigned)

input license, improve services — “we may use Your Content to operate Copilot and improve it… we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate and reformat it.” Why it matters: broader display/performance rights than typical for a private AI-chat product, plus an unusually blunt disclaimer that Microsoft owes you no compensation or notice.

Regulatory & Research Context

Pandit et al. (2026), who manually coded Microsoft/Copilot’s terms, found that consumers “suffer from lack of necessary information, significant imbalance of power, and have responsibilities they cannot materially fulfil without violating the terms” — a description that maps closely onto this document’s candid admission that “we get to decide whether to use Your Content and we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do.” Edwards et al. (2025) would frame that same disclaimer, paired with the public-display/public-performance rights over “Your Content,” as an instance of the “platformisation paradigm,” in which a nominally neutral AI-assistant product adopts content-licensing terms structurally closer to a social-media platform’s than to a private conversational tool’s.

Changes Summary

Date	What changed
2025-11-24 (15:44)	Baseline version (“Effective: 24 October, 2025”) — a substantial prior rewrite per the document’s own “Summary of Changes” (Copilot Actions/Labs/Shopping terms added, Code of Conduct revised, full reorganization), though this is the earliest capture in this dataset.
2025-11-24 (15:56)	Cosmetic only: Oxford-comma punctuation pass and locale-specific link updates (en-gb → en-us); “jail breaking” respelled “jailbreaking.”
2026-01-13	Cosmetic only: one URL de-linked to plain text (copilot.com).

Version History

2025-11-24

Explicit AI clause: YES
Non-explicit predatory: YES
Flagged keywords: input license, improve services

Clause: input license, improve services

We don’t own Your Content, but we may use Your Content to operate Copilot and improve it. By using Copilot, you grant us permission to use Your Content, which means we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate and reformat it and we can give those same rights to others who work on our behalf.

We get to decide whether to use Your Content and we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do. But that doesn’t mean we can use it however we want.

Clause: advertising disclosure (not separately concept-tagged)

Copilot may include advertising.

2026-01-13

All flagged clauses unchanged from 2025-11-24 — cosmetic-only changes across both intervening captures.