A Delhi high court division bench on Tuesday declined to immediately restrain OpenAI from scraping news agency ANI’s content to train ChatGPT and generate responses.
It added that such acts infringed its exclusive rights under the Copyright Act, including the rights to store, reproduce, adapt and translate its original works. The court refused to pass the direction while dealing with ANI’s petition against a single judge’s July 24 order. The ANI told the court that, from September 2024 to July 24, OpenAI had undertaken that it would not scrape content from the agency’s website and urged the court to direct OpenAI to continue with the same arrangement.
In that order, the court dismissed ANI’s petition to restrain OpenAI from using its content to train ChatGPT, holding that the company’s use of such material falls within the statutory exception of “fair dealing” under Indian copyright law.
In its appeal before the division bench, the news agency argued that the injunction had been denied without adequately considering OpenAI’s alleged admission that it had scraped, stored and commercially exploited the agency’s work.
