Delhi HC declines interim injunction against OpenAI in ANI copyright suit
The Delhi High Court has denied an interim injunction against OpenAI in a copyright suit filed by ANI, ruling that training AI models on news content likely falls under fair use exceptions. The court noted that restraining OpenAI would cause irreparable injury to the public interest.
Why it matters
This is a landmark ruling in India regarding the intersection of copyright law, news media, and the training of generative AI models.
The Delhi High Court on Friday (July 24, 2026) refused to grant interim relief to news agency Asian News International (ANI) in its copyright infringement suit against OpenA I, holding prima facie that the company’s use of ANI’s works for training ChatGPT falls within the exception under Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act.
Justice Amit Bansal said OpenAI’s act of storing ANI’s literary works for training its Large Language Models (LLMs), prima facie, did not amount to copyright infringement.
The Court also held that responses generated by ChatGPT using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) were not substantially similar to ANI’s original works and therefore did not infringe copyright.
The Court further observed that restraining OpenAI at this stage would cause irreparable injury not only to the company but also to the public at large.
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