‘Dismiss application of book publishers’: OpenAI to Delhi HC

Tech giant OpenAI has urged the Delhi high court to dismiss the impleadment application filed by an industry body of book publishers in ANI’s copyright lawsuit against the platform. An OpenAI spokesperson, in a statement to HT, said, “We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents.” "We take great care in our products and design process to support news organisations. Earlier on Monday, HT Digital Streams, IE Online Media Services Private Limited, NDTV Convergence, and industry body Digital News Publishers Association filed an intervention application in the Delhi HC in the same lawsuit against OpenAI,, arguing that their content had been scraped and used without permission or licence. A single bench of Justice Amit Bansal, in the November 18 order, had cited four questions: first, if storage of ANI’s news data to train OpenAI’s software was copyright infringement; second, if using this data to generate responses was copyright infringement; third, if OpenAI’s use of ANI’s data is “fair use”; and fourth, if Indian courts have jurisdiction when OpenAI’s servers are in the USA.