Ani VS Openai: Delhi HC has listened to India’s first copyright lawsuit on Genai since February 21

The Delhi High Court said on Tuesday that detailed hearings will begin on February 21 to resolve the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by ANI Media headquartered in New Delhi, and opposite San Francisco’s artificial intelligence (AI) research institution OPENAI. Essence This marks the first copyright dispute involving OPENAI in India. Ani accused the company of using its copyright -protected content to train its large language model (LLMS), including the widely used ChatGPT.

Other hearing is planned to be held on March 11 and March 18.

Single seats led by the judge Amit Bansal also sought an OPENAI response to the application of the Indian publisher Federation and the Digital Press Publisher Association. The association tried to interfere with the case.

The case is to explore key legal issues related to the generation of artificial intelligence (Genai), including how India will regulate AI technology related to copyright infringement. After the lawsuit has a similar challenge for OpenAI globally, including major media organizations, such as “New York Times”This is the damage compensation for the suspected illegal use of its archives to train the AI ​​model.

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The result of this case may have a significant impact on OpenAI’s operations in India. The operation accounts for about 9.5 % of the 300 million active users per week, about 28.5 million users.

India is expected to become the main hub of artificial intelligence, and its AI department is expected to increase significantly by 2027. According to the NASSCOM-EY report, India’s AI market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25-. 35 %, from 2027, reached $ 22 billion, higher than the current value of US $ 70,000 to 10 billion.

Openai was founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk in 2015, and launched ChatGPT in November 2022. The chat robot attracted one million users within five days after release, pushing Openai to the focus. Since then, the company has attracted Microsoft’s dollar investment.

Jurisdiction and copyright issues

The Delhi High Court will solve several complex legal issues in this case, including whether it can be filed for foreign language models, because OpenAI’s server is located outside India. OpenAI proposed concerns about jurisdiction’s affairs, arguing that its operations belong to Indian legal territory.

To help solve the complexity of this case, the court appointed two Amici Curiae: Arul George Scaria, a legal professor of Nlsiu Bengaluru and Adasth Ramanujan, advocate Adesth Ramanujan.

ANI’s lawsuit was submitted in November 2024, claiming that OpenAI uses its copyright protection without allowing training. Ani seek BleakCompensation and ban of 20 million damages to prevent OpenAI storage, release or reproduce the materials protected by its copyright. Initially, the court refused to approve the temporary ban on Openai on the grounds of the complexity of the case, but the matter now involves other parties: the Indian Publisher Federation and the Digital Press Publishing Association (DNPA). Society and media.

The Federal and DNPA believes that the use of OpenAI’s use of public content (such as book abstracts and excerpts) constitutes an infringement of intellectual property rights. These groups believe that OpenAI’s actions have disrupted the value of the original work and damaged the sources of income from the media by depriving advertising revenue.

ANI’s lawsuit is based on three main allegations. First of all, Ani claimed that Openai used its public copyright materials to train its LLM. Secondly, ANI pointed out the response that is said to have a gradual copy of the copyright protection material. Third, ANI has aroused concerns about the reaction of “hallucinations”. Among them, ChatGPT will produce false or fabricated information, and may spread wrong information, especially in a sensitive political background.

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In the defense, Openai denied any improper behavior, called the expression of the protection of the copyright law, not the thought itself. The company also believes that ANI failed to provide specific examples of copying its copyright materials by ChatGPT.

OpenAI also believes that it includes ANI’s domain names in the blockade in October to prevent the use of its materials in the training model in the future. In addition, the company asserted that the lawsuit lacked jurisdiction because its server is located outside India. Openai pointed out that it has not faced any lawsuits around the world, including lawsuits from the United States, Canada and Germany, all of which have led to a ban or ruling of copyright infringement.

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With the proceeding of the case, it may set an important precedent for the copyright disputes related to India and the world. As a result, it may play a key role in shaping the future supervision landscape of AI technology.