In November 2024, Asian News International (ANI) filed a copyright infringement suit seeking injunctive relief and damages against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court. ANI alleged that its content has been unauthorizedly used to train ChatGPT and that ChatGPT generates responses containing excerpts from its articles. OpenAI has denied the allegations stating that its models do not reproduce any articles or excerpts but generate content by analyzing patterns from publicly available data. According to OpenAI, training on publicly accessible content does not require explicit permission.
The Federation of India Publishers as well as several Indian digital news publishers filed an intervention application as per the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 seeking impleadment and stated that they have a “real and substantial interest” in the legal questions raised in the matter.
Source: Ani Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI Inc. & Anr. [CS(COMM) 1028/2024]