Indian Court Rules OpenAI Did Not Infringe ANI Copyright
An Indian court has ruled that OpenAI’s use of news agency ANI’s content to train ChatGPT does not amount to copyright infringement. The Delhi High Court observed that ANI failed to prove the AI chatbot memorised or reproduced its news reports in responses generated for users, marking the first significant judicial finding in India on AI training and copyrighted news content.
ANI had filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in November 2024, alleging that the company used its published articles without permission to train its artificial intelligence models and that ChatGPT generated fabricated stories falsely attributed to the news agency. The case raised important questions about the use of copyrighted material for training large language models, an issue also being debated in courts in the United States and Canada.
Justice Amit Bansal held that storing ANI’s news articles for training AI models is protected under the research-related fair dealing exemption in India’s Copyright Act. The court concluded that OpenAI’s use of the material for AI training falls within this legal protection and therefore does not violate ANI’s copyright.
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