News agency ANI has moved a division bench of the Delhi high court against a single judge’s order dismissing its plea to restrain OpenAI from using its content to train ChatGPT .
On July 24, Justice Amit Bansal dismissed ANI’s plea, holding that OpenAI ’s use of the news agency’s material for training its large language model (LLM) fell within the statutory exception of “fair dealing” under Indian copyright law.
ANI, in its appeal, argued that the injunction was denied without adequately considering OpenAI’s alleged admission that it had scraped, stored and commercially exploited the agency’s work. The agency contended that such acts infringed its exclusive rights under the Copyright Act, including the rights to store, reproduce, adapt and translate its original works. Justice Bansal, in his 135-page verdict, reasoned that the training data was accessible only to the AI model during the learning process and was not made available to the public for viewing or downloading.
