Microsoft

Overview

Microsoft's February 2026 Publisher Content Marketplace announcement describes using licensed content to ground responses in enterprise and consumer versions of Copilot. This establishes Microsoft as a content buyer as well as the operator of a marketplace connecting publishers and AI builders.

Documented data use

The stated use is grounding: bringing source information into an AI answer. The announcement does not establish model-training rights. Publishers set licensing and usage terms, and the marketplace provides usage reporting.

Microsoft names The Associated Press, Business Insider, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc, USA TODAY Co., and Vox Media among the publishers involved in designing the marketplace.

Working with Microsoft

The announcement links to a Publisher Content Marketplace interest form for prospective partners. It describes a pilot expanding to additional supply and demand partners; inclusion here does not imply automatic acceptance or published standard rates.