Microsoft refuses to pay for copyright – Media Capital CEO

The CEO of Media Capital accused Microsoft today of not “recognising the obligation to pay anything for copyright” which its artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI is “abusing on a daily basis”. Pedro Morais Leitão was speaking on the panel “The sustainability of the media in Portugal”, at the conference “Information as a public good: Media regulation and public policies”, organised by the Media Regulatory Authority (ERC), which is taking place in the Senate Room at the Parliament in Lisbon. He also said that it was “shocking what is happening with Microsoft in Portugal”, a company that “has commercial relations with every media group” in the country and that “charges software licences worth hundreds of thousands of euros every year to each of these groups”. Yet OpenAI visits all the groups’ sites on a daily basis and “collects information”. This issue “from a regulatory point of view requires intervention certainly at European level, but also swift action at local level”, he said.