A New Delhi high court case by a consortium of India's leading media outlets and publishers that accuses the firm of appropriating their work without consent in order to train its ChatGPT chatbot could transform how the industry conducts business in India.

India has established a committee to examine whether current copyright legislation is adequate to address AI-related controversies, an official memo revealed, amid a period when OpenAI is under legal scrutiny over allegations of copyright exploitation.

A lawsuit in the high court in New Delhi by a consortium of leading Indian news organizations and book publishers alleging the company copies their content without authorization to assist in training its ChatGPT chatbot could transform the way the industry works in India.

OpenAI has refuted any wrongdoing.

The confidential memo said the commerce ministry formed a panel of eight experts last month to look into questions about AI and their effect on India's copyright law.

The experts were asked to "identify and analyze the legal and policy issues arising from the use of artificial intelligence in the context of copyright," the memo further stated.

The panel of intellectual property lawyers, government officials and industry executives will also review the sufficiency of the Copyright Act of 1957 in addressing such issues and recommend to the government, it added.

India's infotech and commerce ministries could not be reached for comment by Reuters.

The copyright legislation has been at the center of OpenAI India lawsuits.

Billionaire Gautam Adani-owned NDTV, Indian Express and Hindustan Times dailies and the Digital News Publishers Association, comprising leading news publications, report that they are in sync with each other on their fears regarding copyright law infringement by AI platforms that use their content to train these apps.

OpenAI claims that it uses public data to train its chatbot, which is not a violation of Indian copyright law, and also includes an opt-out for websites that do not wish their data to be used.

Courts globally are entertaining suits by authors, news outlets and musicians that allege technology firms are using their copyrighted content to train AI services without asking or compensation.

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