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Training ChatGPT on Publicly Available Content Doesn’t Violate Copyright: Delhi HC Rejects ANI’s Suit Against OpenAI

Training ChatGPT on Publicly Available Content Doesn’t Violate Copyright: Delhi HC Rejects ANI’s Suit Against OpenAI

ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. Open AI OpCo LLC, CS (COMM) No. 1028 of 2024 (I.A. No. 45300 of 2024) [order dated July 24, 2026]

AI training copyright

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed news agency ANI’s copyright claims against OpenAI, holding that the use of publicly available material for training large language models such as ChatGPT does not, by itself, amount to copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, 1957.

ANI had instituted the suit alleging that OpenAI had reproduced and used its copyrighted news content without authorisation for training ChatGPT and sought an injunction restraining such use. OpenAI, on the other hand, argued that training an AI model involves analysing patterns in publicly available text rather than storing or reproducing expressive works in a manner that infringes copyright.

Justice Amit Bansal has accepted OpenAI’s broad defence that AI training on publicly accessible material is a transformative technological process and does not amount to actionable copyright infringement merely because copyrighted content forms part of the training corpus. The Court declined to grant the relief sought by ANI.

Appearances

Mr. Sidhant Kumar, Mr. Lahar Jain, Mr. Akshit Mago, Ms. Manya Chandok, Ms. Anshika Saxena, Mr. Amit Sibal, Mr. Sanjeev Kapoor, Mr. Nirupam Lodha, Ms. Madhav Khosla, Mr. Gautam Wadhwa, Ms. Moha Paranjpe, Mr. Abhi Udai Singh Guatam, Ms. Rebecca Cordoso, Mr. Hardik Malik, Ms. Vanshika Thapliyal, Mr. Rajat Bector, Mr. Akhil Sibal, Mr. Aditya Gupta, Ms. Asavari Jain, Mr. Shuvam Bhattacharya, Ms. Vani Kaushik, Ms. Riddhie Bajaj, Mr. Jahnavi Siddhu, Ms. Aishwarya Kane, Mr. Sauhard Alung, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Mr. Arvind P. Datar, Mr. Shashank Mishra, Mr. Akshi Rastogi, Mr. Parv Kaushik, Mr. Suvaroop Saha Roy, Mr. Haripriya Padmanabhan, Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Mr. Akshat Agrawal, Mr. Tushar Srivastava, Mr. Shourya Das Gupta, Ms. Siddhi Nagwekar, Mr. Yashi Bajpai, Mr. Yash Tayal, Mr. Ankit Sahni, Ms. Kritika Sahni, Mr. Chirag Ahluwalia, Mr. Mohit Maru, Ms. Tanisha Sharma, Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Mr. Chander M. Lall, Mr. Ameet Datta, Mr. Harsh Kaushik, Ms. Riddima Sharma, Mr. Akshay Nagarajan, Ms. Rishikaa, Ms. Gauri Khanna, Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Mr. Parth Singh and Mr. Arul George Scaria, Advocates.

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