Justice Amit Bansal while pronouncing the judgement observed, “OpenAI’s act of storing ANI’s works does not amount to copyright infringement…since outputs were not similar to ANI’s outputs.”
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In a major development, the Delhi High Court on Friday has denied interim injunction to news agency ANI’s claim of copyright infringement by artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI.Justice Amit Bansal while pronouncing the judgement observed, “OpenAI’s act of storing ANI’s works does not amount to copyright infringement…since outputs were not similar to ANI’s outputs.”The HC observed that ANI also failed to make out prima facie case for grant of interim injunction. It also said that outputs generated by ChatGPT using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technique does not amount to copyright infringement since the answers generated by the AI-tool were not substantially similar to the original content published by ANI.“Irreparable injury would be caused not only to OpenAI, but also to the public at large, if an interim injunction is granted. Application dismissed,” the judgement added.In one of a rare cases, the news agency ANI Media Pvt Ltd in November 2024 moved the Delhi HC against OpenAI Inc (OAI) and Open AI OpCo LLC, raising issues of infringement of its copyrighted material for large language model (LLM) training by OpenAI.Later some other organisations from media and publishing houses and associations such as the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP), Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), and the Indian Music Industry (IMI), who had raised similar objections to OpenAI’s training model, also were made parties in the suit.Justice Amit Bansal of the High Court appointed advocate Adarsh Ramanujan and Arul George Scaria, professor of Law at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) to assist the court in the adjudication of the suit.Published on July 24, 2026
