Mint Explainer: The OpenAI case and what’s at stake for AI and copyright in India
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The first legal challenge to generative artificial intelligence models in India surfaced last week when news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court alleging copyright infringement. In this case, a first-of-its-kind in India, New Delhi-based ANI has accused the San Francisco-headquartered creator of ChatGPT of using ANI’s copyrighted content to train its language models.
Mint reached out to experts to understand the stakes in this case and how it could determine India’s legal stance on GenAI. On 19 November, ANI moved a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using its copyrighted material to train its language models. The lawsuit, filed in the Delhi High Court, seeks damages of ₹2 crore and an injunction to prevent OpenAI from storing, publishing, reproducing, or using ANI’s copyrighted works.
ANI’s plea outlined three primary causes of action against OpenAI. OpenAI has denied any wrongdoing, asserting that copyright laws protect the expression of ideas, not facts or ideas themselves. The company highlighted that ANI has not cited specific instances of its copyrighted material being reproduced by ChatGPT.
OpenAI informed the Delhi High Court that it had blocklisted ANI’s domain as of October 2024, ensuring that ANI’s material was no longer used for training its models. The company also emphasized that its servers are located outside India, arguing that this makes the lawsuit jurisdictionally irrelevant. OpenAI also pointed out that none of the lawsuits it has faced globally, including in the US, Canada, and Germany, had resulted in injunctions or findings of copyright infringement.
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