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- The Delhi High Court has ruled that OpenAI did not infringe Indian copyright law by using ANI's news content to train ChatGPT, refusing ANI's request for an interim injunction to block further training.
- Justice Amit Bansal held that training data stored in a closed system accessible only to the model amounts to 'private use' under the fair dealing exception, and that ChatGPT's outputs were not substantially similar to ANI's works.
- The court also rejected OpenAI's jurisdictional objection, confirming Indian courts can hear the case since the infringement chain began in India.
- The decision is India's first judgment on how the 1957 Copyright Act applies to generative AI and could shape how AI firms, publishers and rights holders engage, with the full suit to be heard from September 11.
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- The main copyright suit is set to be heard from September 11, with ANI seeking a permanent restraint, deletion of stored content and Rs 2 crore in damages.
- Publishers and industry bodies like the Federation of Indian Publishers and Digital News Publishers Association have intervened, so their submissions may shape the final outcome.
- The balance-of-convenience reasoning could be cited in other Indian AI training-data suits, making future litigation worth tracking.
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