Delhi HC Rejects ANI’s Plea For Interim Injunction Against OpenAI In Copyright Suit
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The Delhi High Court has dismissed ANI’s plea seeking an interim injunction against OpenAI in the news agency’s copyright infringement suit over ChatGPT.
According to Live Law, Justice Amit Bansal held that OpenAI’s act of storing ANI’s content during the AI training process does not, by itself, amount to copyright infringement, observing that ChatGPT’s outputs are not similar to ANI’s original works.
Rejecting ANI’s request for interim relief, the court said the news agency failed to establish a prima facie case that OpenAI’s models had memorised its content to an extent warranting an injunction. It further observed that granting an interim injunction at this stage could cause irreparable harm not only to OpenAI but also to the public at large.
ANI alleged that ChatGPT reproduces portions of its reports verbatim in response to user queries and, in some instances, attributes fabricated statements and news reports to the agency. It argued that such AI “hallucinations” damage its reputation.
OpenAI denied the allegations and challenged the maintainability of the suit in India, arguing that its AI models are not trained in the country and that its servers are located outside India.
The company also argued that AI training is a transformative process and does not amount to copyright infringement. It further submitted that publishers that do not want their content to be used for training can prevent web crawlers from accessing their websites.
Summons in the case were issued in November 2024. The copyright suit remains pending before the Delhi High Court.
The lawsuit stems from a copyright infringement suit filed by ANI in 2024, alleging that OpenAI used its news reports without authorisation to train ChatGPT.
During earlier hearings, ANI argued that OpenAI’s use of its content went beyond copyright infringement and amounted to unfair competition by diluting its market. Its counsel told the Delhi High Court that ChatGPT first used ANI’s content to train its language models, stored the data and then made it publicly accessible through responses to users.
The case has drawn wider attention from India’s media and entertainment industry. Several publishers, including NDTV, Network18, The Indian Express, and Hindustan Times, sought to join ANI’s legal battle against OpenAI.
Separately, music labels such as T-Series, Saregama, and Sony Music also sought to intervene in the proceedings, arguing that AI companies should not be allowed to use copyrighted works without permission or licensing.
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