OpenAI won a key legal case in India last Friday (24th) local time: the Delhi High Court ruled that using content from Asian News International (India) (hereinafter referred to as ANI) to train artificial intelligence does not constitute copyright infringement.
Judge Amit Bansal held that OpenAI’s conduct falls under the research-related “fair dealing” exception defined in India’s Copyright Act. ANI also failed to prove to the court that ChatGPT’s generated responses contained direct copies of ANI’s copyright-protected content.
On the other hand, after weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the judge held that issuing any interim injunction at this stage would be detrimental to the development of artificial intelligence, particularly the LLMs being developed in India. If an interim injunction were imposed, it would adversely affect the public interest, including the large number of users in India who use ChatGPT for free.