From Our Web Desk : Eastern Chronicle 24×7, The 28th January, 2025.
Microsoft-backed Open AI sought to block India’s Biggest Media Organisations, including those of Billionaires Mr. Gautam Adani & Mr. Mukesh Ambani’s media houses, from joining a Copyright Lawsuit, that is set to shape the legal framework for AI in India.
Courts globally are hearing cases from news organisations, authors & musician, who accused that, technology firms of using their copyrighted works to train Artificial Intelligence (AI ) services without permission or license, or legal entity. India stood in the line of second largest Market by the numbers of User’s, after the United States of America.
In India, the case bagan with Legal action last year by local news agency ANI, and recent weeks Book Publishers and almost a Dozen of Digital Media Houses, including those of Adani & Ambani, have sought to join the case to challenge the AI, giant.
On Tuesday, openAI had in a filing sought to dismiss the Book Publisher’s case, saying it’s chatGPT services only to disseminate Public Information. Later in court, openAI Lawyer, Mr. Amit Sibbal said, he would oppose the bid by media organisations to join in case.
OpenAI maintain it only uses publicly available data in a manner protected by fair use principle.
OpenAI said in it’s initial response to the court to the ANI case, that the Indian Judges have No Jurisdiction, to hear a case against it, as it’s servers are located Abroad.
The federation of Indian Publishers, which represents many indian companies, has argued chatGPT produces book summaries and extracts from unlicensed online copies, hurting their business, – an allegations, openAI denies.
Seperately, digital news units of India’s Largest Media Groups including Indian Express & Hindustan Times, have sought to join the Lawsuit by arguing chatGPT was scrapping the contents from their News Website to store and reproduce their works for it’s users.
