Delhi High Court rejects ANI's OpenAI injunction
Delhi high court rejects ani's bid to injunct openai, finding no proven copyright infringement or economic harm, signaling judicial tolerance for ai training under research exceptions.
delhi high court denied ani's request for an injunction against openai, ruling the news agency failed to prove chatgpt reproduced its articles verbatim or that training caused economic harm. justice amit bansal found ai training tentatively qualifies as a private research exception under indian copyright law, provided data comes from lawful sources. the court distinguished between memorization and retrieval augmented generation, noting ani's evidence articles postdated the model's training cutoff. this interim decision suggests courts may view ai training as transformative and non-competitive with original content creators, though the final verdict on copyright status is pending.