"Nowbar spent 28 years at Microsoft, where he was most recently chief legal officer, and oversaw complex M&A deals like the company's $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard as well as the dawn of Microsoft's involvement with AI. Somewhat unusually for a former employer, Microsoft President Brad Smith had no objection to the move, and in fact heaped praise on Nowbar and congratulated ServiceNow in a statement that accompanied the announcement. "Having worked closely with Hossein for more than 25 years, I can say first-hand that ServiceNow is incredibly fortunate to have him," Smith enthused. Nowbar and Smith cowrote a blog in 2023 that announced indemnification for Microsoft Copilot users who may run afoul of copyright laws while using it."
""[We] will 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 guardrails and content filters we have built into our products," the two wrote. The policy called the Customer Copyright Commitment was updated in 2024 to include commercial customers using the Azure OpenAI Service."
"In his Microsoft exit post written three months ago, Nowbar took to LinkedIn to say that in the hands of Microsoft's legal department, the law became a catalyst for innovation, "not just a safeguard." "I helped clear antitrust hurdles for transformative acquisitions like Nuance and Activision Blizzard King, supported product and service launches that reshaped the way we work, and introduced the Customer Copyright Commitment to help our customers realize the promise of AI," Nowbar wrote in his post."
Hossein Nowbar joined ServiceNow as chief legal officer and president following a 28-year career at Microsoft. He served as Microsoft's chief legal officer and led large M&A transactions, including the $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition, and worked on legal frameworks as Microsoft entered AI. Microsoft President Brad Smith praised Nowbar and supported the move. Nowbar and Smith created the Customer Copyright Commitment to indemnify Copilot users under specified guardrails, and that policy was expanded in 2024 to cover commercial Azure OpenAI Service customers. At ServiceNow, Nowbar will oversee global legal, ethics, governance, compliance, risk, ServiceNow.org, impact and sustainability, and related corporate responsibilities.
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