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Microsoft Copilot has moderate defaults; DeepSeek Chat carries the most permissive license terms of the set.FOR ENTERPRISE: DEEPSEEK CHAT NOT RECOMMENDED · MICROSOFT COPILOT ENTERPRISE TIER ACCEPTABLE
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“ 4.1 You are responsible for all Inputs you submit to our Services and corresponding Outputs. By submitting Inputs to our Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process the Inputs under our Terms. Y…”
“ 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…”
“we grant you a revocable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right to legally use this product and related services. All other rights not expressly authorized by these Terms are reserved by DeepSeek, and before exercising such rights, you must obtain written permission from…”
The terms do not explicitly assign ownership of generated outputs to users. Combined with DeepSeek's broad reservation of all non-expressly-granted rights, there is no clear statement that users own or receive an unrestricted license to their outputs.
“ 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…”
“To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology.”
User inputs and interactions are explicitly used to train AI models with no opt-out mechanism described in this section.
“ 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.”
“ (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing,”
“ 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 right to delete Personal Data you’ve provided to us, or that we’ve obtained about you;”
The policy mentions a deletion right but provides no information on actual retention periods, deletion timelines, or whether model weights trained on user data can be 'deleted'.
“ 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…”
“and **Payment Personal Data** are not applicable to DeepSeek App.”
“ These Terms don’t apply to Microsoft 365 Copilot apps or services unless that specific app or service says that these Terms apply.”