The Delhi High Court is currently hearing two cases:
A. Indian news agency, ANI, has sued Open AI for copyright violation by using its content to train its model without a licensing deal.
B. The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) has sued Open AI for copyright violation because it uses copyrighted books to train its LLM. This was proved when Chat GPT provided a chapter-by-chapter summary of a Harry Potter book.
In the first case, Open AI has responded with two very interesting arguments:
1. Since Open AI has no office in India, Indian courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases against the company.
2. Deleting copyrighted content from its training servers would “breach its legal obligations in the US”
Some questions for you:
- Why is the respondent only Open AI and not other LLM companies, including Krutrim from India?
- What legal obligations to US stakeholders are fulfilled by doing copyright violations in India?
- What should be the basis of determining whether a company is subject to the law of any country?
Please type your answers in the comments to this story. We’ll be waiting!