Delhi High Court ruled that OpenAI's usage ANI data is not copyright infringement
A bench of Justice Amit Bansal pronounced the judgement that it reserved on March 27
The court decided that OpenAI’s use of ANI’s data is ‘fair use’ in terms of Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957
Delhi HC Rules OpenAI's Use Of ANI Data Isn't Copyright Infringement
Justice Amit Bansal pronounced the judgement stating that Open AI's act of storing ANI's literary works for training LLM falls under Section 52 of Copyright Act
OpenAI v ANI case
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The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that OpenAI using the data of news agency ANI does not amount to copyright infringement.
A bench of Justice Amit Bansal pronounced the judgement that it reserved on March 27.
"I have decided on the four issues (identified in the case), (issue number) 1 and 3 have a combined findings. On the issue of territorial jurisdiction, I have held in favour of the plaintiff (ANI)," Justice Bandal said, as per Bar and Bench.
"I am of the prima facie view that the Open AI's act of storing ANI's literary works for training LLM falls under section 52 and so, does not amount to infringement," he added.
The four issues identified in the matter by the court were:
1. Whether the storage by OpenAI of ANI’s data for training ChatGPT would amount to copyright infringement.
2. Whether the use of copyrighted data in order to generate responses for its users, would amount to copyright infringement.
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3. Whether the OpenAI’s use of ANI’s data is ‘fair use’ in terms of Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957.
4. Whether this court has jurisdiction.