Framing Analysis
The Delhi High Court, in a ruling by Justice Amit Bansal, held that OpenAI's storage of ANI news content for LLM training qualifies as fair dealing under Section 52(1)(a) of the Indian Copyright Act. ANI had sued OpenAI in November 2024 after offering and being declined a license in October 2024, but failed to demonstrate memorization or substantial reproduction in ChatGPT outputs. The suit marks the first copyright action by an Indian news organization against OpenAI.