AI As An Author: Delhi HC’s Take On Authorship & Copyright
- IJLLR Journal
- Feb 5
- 1 min read
Arunima Kumar, Amity Law School, Noida
ABSTRACT
The rise of artificial intelligence has changed how content is created, shared, and consumed across various fields in the world. From art to journalism, AI is performing majority of tasks that were once strictly human domains. This advancement raises a critical legal question: whether AI-generated content enjoy copyright protection, and if so, who owns it? This debate came sharply into focus in ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI Inc & Anr, a case reforming India’s approach to intellectual property in the AI era.
This paper seeks to examine the questions posed by the case, the first being whether storage of the news agency’s protected data for training of AI systems amount to copyright infringement; and the second relating to the use of such data by the AI systems to generate response for users amount to copyright infringement. Further, the paper analyses the applicability of “fair use” doctrine, while also examining the territorial jurisdiction of courts in India to entertain this matter by emphasising upon the effects doctrine.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, OpenAI, fair use doctrine, copyright law, ChatGPT, AI training
