An Indian court has ruled in favor of OpenAI, stating that the company’s use of news agency ANI’s content to train its ChatGPT service did not amount to copyright infringement. The Delhi High Court made this decision on Friday, marking the first substantive court finding in India on whether AI companies can train large language models on copyrighted news content without a license.
Background of the Case
ANI had sued OpenAI in November 2024, accusing the U.S. company of using its published content without permission to train its AI models and of having its chatbot attribute fabricated stories to the news agency. However, the court found that ANI failed to show that ChatGPT memorized or reproduced its news reports in responses generated for users.
The court ruled that OpenAI’s storage of ANI’s news articles to train the models underlying ChatGPT is protected by a fair-dealing exemption for research under a provision of India’s Copyright Act and therefore does not infringe ANI’s copyright.
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