Written by Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Munsif Vengattil
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the latest in a series of global cases seeking to block chatbot ChatGPT from accessing proprietary content, a representative said on Friday.
Courts around the world are hearing lawsuits from authors, news media and musicians who accuse technology companies of using their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence services and who seek to take down content used to train a chatbot.
The New Delhi-based Indian Publishers Association told Reuters it had filed a case in the Delhi High Court, which is already hearing a similar lawsuit against OpenAI.
The case was brought on behalf of all the consortium’s members, including publishers Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press and Pan Macmillan, as well as India’s Rupa Publications and S. Chand & Co.
“Our request to the court is to block (OpenAI) from accessing our copyrighted content,” Pranav Gupta, secretary general of the federation, said in an interview about the lawsuit, which concerns book summaries for ChatGPT.
“If they don’t want to license with us, they have to delete the datasets used to train the AI and explain how we will be compensated. This affects innovation,” he added.
OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment on the allegations and lawsuit, which were filed in December but are reported here for the first time. It has repeatedly denied such claims, saying its AI systems use publicly available data fairly.
OpenAI sparked an investment, consumer and enterprise frenzy in generative AI after launching ChatGPT in November 2022. It wants to be ahead of the AI race after raising $6.6 billion last year.
The Indian book publishers group is seeking to join the lawsuit filed by Indian news agency ANI against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the country’s highest-profile legal action on the subject.
“These cases represent a pivotal moment and could shape the future legal framework for artificial intelligence in India. The ruling here will test the balance between protecting intellectual property and promoting technological progress,” said Siddharth Chandrashekar, a Mumbai-based lawyer.
In response to the ANI case, OpenAI said in comments reported by Reuters this week that any order to delete the training data would violate its US legal obligations, and Indian judges have no right to hear the copyright case against the company as its servers. Located abroad.
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