The Delhi High Court dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday.
News agency Asian News International (ANI) filed the suit regarding the use of its public content to train ChatGPT.
Justice Amit Bansal ruled that training Large Language Models on publicly available data does not violate Indian law.
The court found no evidence that ChatGPT memorized or reproduced ANI's original news reports.
Justice Bansal determined that AI training falls under the fair dealing exception for research within India's Copyright Act.
This decision marks the first major legal ruling on generative AI and copyright issues in India.