OPEN AI TO FACE INDIAN NEWS FIRMS IN COPYRIGHT BATTLE – Courts hear claims of tech firms using copyrighted work to train AI services without permission
Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets including the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times, are joining proceedings against OpenAI for improperly using copyright content, legal papers show.
Courts globally are hearing claims by authors, news organizations, and musicians who accuse technology firms of using their copyrighted work to train AI services without permission or payment.
The Indian media outlets, including Adani’s NDTV and Ambani’s Network18, have told a New Delhi court they want to join an ongoing lawsuit against the ChatGPT creator as they are worried their news websites are being scraped to store and reproduce their work for users of the powerful AI tool.
In the most high-profile battle, local news agency ANI was the first to file a lawsuit against OpenAI last year. Global and Indian book publishers joined on Friday.
The 135-page case filing argues that OpenAI’s conduct constitutes “a clear and present danger to the valuable copyrights” of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) members and other outlets.
It refers to OpenAI’s “wilful scraping … and adaptation of content”, adding that “the disproportionate power of tech companies in prioritizing content and extracting advertising revenue has raised concerns among publishers.”
