Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
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When a Microsoft director calls AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history” in NYT-related legal filings, the IP and revenue-sharing fight is no longer theoretical. If your product depends on third-party content, you need a licensing, provenance, and risk budget line now—courts may retroactively reprice your inputs.
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