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Microsoft Copilot has moderate defaults; Cohere Coral carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE CORAL NOT RECOMMENDED · MICROSOFT COPILOT ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE CORAL | MICROSOFT COPILOT |
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“YOU GRANT US A NONEXCLUSIVE, WORLDWIDE, ROYALTY-FREE, IRREVOCABLE, SUBLICENSABLE, AND FULLY PAID-UP RIGHT TO ACCESS, COLLECT, USE, PROCESS, STORE, DISCLOSE AND TRANSMIT ANY DATA, INFORMATION, CONTENT, RECORDS OR FILES (“ CONTENT ”) THAT YOU LOAD, SUBMIT, TRANSMIT TO OR ENTER INTO…”
The license grant over user inputs is irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and sublicensable—meaning Cohere retains these rights even if the user terminates their account. The scope is extremely broad.
“ Certain words and phrases we use in these Terms have a particular meaning: Words like “ you ”, “ your ” and “ yours ” mean you, the person accessing and using Copilot. Words like “ we ”, “ us ”, and “ our ” means Microsoft, the company that offers Copilot, as well as the relat…”
“ The Cohere Solution and all materials provided by us hereunder are made available or licensed and not “sold” to you. ”
“ If a third party sues a commercial customer for copyright infringement for using Microsoft's Copilots or the output they generate, we'll defend the customer and pay the amount of any adverse judgments or settlements that result from the lawsuit, as long as the customer used the…”
“Section 2.3 (Research and Model Improvement): Analyzing usage patterns and using Trial or Research User Inputs/Outputs to improve the performance and safety of our AI models. Content you submit to the Cohere Products, and outputs generated by the Cohere Products. Legitimate…”
Cohere uses Trial and Research user inputs and outputs for model training/improvement under 'legitimate interests' rather than consent, giving users limited ability to object. Paid/Enterprise users may have different treatment but this is not clarified here.
“ Your personal data collected from the use of connected experiences in Microsoft 365 isn’t used to train large language models (LLMs), including those used by Microsoft 365 Copilot.”
“you further represent and warrant to and covenant with Cohere that you will not (and will not attempt to) directly or indirectly: disable, overly burden, impair, or otherwise interfere with servers or networks connected to the Cohere Solution (e.g., a denial of service att…”
Commercial exploitation of the Cohere Solution itself is prohibited without prior written permission, which significantly restricts resale, white-labelling, or embedding scenarios.
“ Microsoft 365 Copilot, including Microsoft 365 Copilot Search , is compliant with our existing privacy, security, and compliance commitments to Microsoft 365 commercial customers, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and European Union (EU) Data Boundary.”
“The use of cookies for this purpose may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under California privacy law.”
Platform acknowledges its advertising cookie practices may constitute a 'sale' or 'sharing' of personal data under CCPA/CPRA.
“ Microsoft 365 Copilot only surfaces organizational data to which individual users have at least view permissions. It's important that you're using the permission models available in Microsoft 365 services, such as SharePoint, to help ensure the right users or groups have the rig…”
“EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS PROVIDED IN AN APPLICABLE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW”
Warranty and other protections may differ for users with a separate Subscription Agreement (typically paid/enterprise tiers), but the specific differences are not disclosed in this document.
“ These Terms don’t apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot apps or services unless that specific app or service says that these Terms apply.”