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Delhi High Court refuses ANI's bid to stop OpenAI training on its news
Justice Amit Bansal dismissed news agency ANI's interim injunction application, holding prima facie that storing its articles for training falls within fair dealing under Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act and that ChatGPT's retrieval-based answers were not substantially similar to ANI's text. The court did find it had jurisdiction over OpenAI despite US-based servers; the findings are provisional pending trial.
Why it matters
India's first major AI-training ruling leaves model training on news content unrestrained for now while the questions go to trial and appeal.
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- RuleANI v OpenAI (interim ruling)IN · In force · 24 Jul 2026
- RuleGPAI Code of PracticeEU · In force · 10 Jul 2025
- RuleUK Copyright and AI reportGB · In force · 18 Mar 2026
- RuleEU AI ActEU · Partly in force · 13 Jun 2024
- RuleGPAI guidelines and training-data summary templateEU · In force · 18 Jul 2025
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