The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to restrain OpenAI from using news agency ANI’s copyrighted content, holding at the interim stage that storing publicly available literary work to train large language models (LLMs) could qualify as “fair dealing” for private use and research under Indian copyright law.
Justice Amit Bansal dismissed ANI Media’s application for an interim injunction against the ChatGPT maker, but clarified that the findings were prima facie and would not affect the final outcome of the copyright infringement suit. Citing ANI’s October 2024 offer to license its content to OpenAI for $7.5 million, the court said this indicated that its claim was quantifiable, and that monetary compensation could be awarded if the news agency succeeded in the suit.
