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Informist, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026

 

NEW DELHI – ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. Monday moved a division bench of the Delhi High Court against an order of a single judge of the high court that the act of artificial intelligence research organisation OpenAI OpCo LLC. using the news agency's material to train its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT does not amount to copyright infringement. ANI Media has sought an interim injunction against OpenAI training ChatGPT with material that has the news agency's copyright. A division bench of Justice V. Kameswar Rao and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora will hear ANI Media's case Tuesday.

 

ANI Media argued that OpenAI was training ChatGPT with the media company's copyrighted material. "The software is provided with data to train its large language model. It stores my content and makes it available online," counsel for ANI Media said. ChatGPT falsely attributes ANI for political news, the company said, adding that this could lead to the spread of fake news that has the propensity to cause public disorder.

 

On Jul. 24, a single-judge bench of Justice Amit Bansal had said the output generated by ChatGPT after using ANI Media's material does not amount to copyright infringement, as it is not similar to the latter's output. Justice Bansal said OpenAI's act of storing ANI Media's literary works for training large language models falls under Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act, 1957, and does not amount to an infringement. Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act states that fair dealing with any work, except a computer programme, does not break copyright law if used for private or personal use, including research, criticism, or review, and for reporting current events or public lectures.

 

Justice Bansal said ANI Media had failed to satisfy the court that in the responses generated by ChatGPT, any retrieval of the media company's original literary response has taken place. The agency had also failed to make out a prima facie case for granting an interim injunction, he said. The balance of convenience is also against granting an interim injunction, he said. Irreparable injury would be caused not only to OpenAI but also to the public at large if an interim injunction were to be granted, he said.

 

The case has wide ramifications for the media industry where OpenAI uses material from different news publishers and music organisations to train ChatGPT, which uses large language models to process natural language, allowing one to converse with it, ask questions, write code, generate images and music, and automate tasks in a human-like manner.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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