In ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. Open AI OpCo LLC, 2026 SCC OnLine Del 6892, decided on 24 July 2026 by the Delhi High Court (Justice Amit Bansal), the Court considered one of India’s first major copyright disputes involving generative AI. ANI alleged that Open AI had used its copyrighted news articles and interviews to train ChatGPT without permission and that the AI-generated responses reproduced its original literary works, thereby infringing its rights under the Copyright Act, 1957. Open AI argued that its AI model learns patterns from publicly available information, does not ordinarily reproduce copyrighted content, and that its use was protected under Section 52 of the Copyright Act. The Court held that it had territorial jurisdiction under Section 62(2) of the Copyright Act and Section 20 of the CPC, despite Open AI’s servers being located outside India. However, it refused to grant an interim injunction, observing that ANI had not established a prima facie case of copyright infringement or substantial reproduction of its works. The judgment is significant because it is one of the first Indian decisions to examine how copyright law applies to AI training, LLMs, and AI-generated outputs, making it an important precedent for future AI and intellectual property disputes in India.[1]
Authored by Naga Chandy T.
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[1] https://www.livelawbiz.com/pdf_upload/2026/07/24/ani-689236.pdf