The Federation of Indian Publishers has urged the Delhi HC to stop OpenAI from accessing the copyright content of its members and delete data used to train the AI giant’s chatbot
The federation filed the case on behalf of all its members, including Rupa Publications, S Chand & Co Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, among others
The Indian and global publishers are looking to join news agency ANI, which has also filed a copyright infringement case against OpenAI in the HC
Multiple domestic and global book publishers have reportedly banded together and sued artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement.
The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) told Reuters that it has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court (HC). The federation filed the case on behalf of all its members, including homegrown players like Rupa Publications and S Chand and Co as well global giants such as Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press and Pan Macmillan.
“Our ask from the court is that they (OpenAI) should stop accessing our copyright content… In case they don’t want to do licensing with us, they should delete datasets used in AI training and explain how we will be compensated. This impacts creativity,” said FIP’s general secretary Pranav Gupta.
The lawsuit, which was filed in December, reportedly claims that the federation has “credible evidence/information” from its members that OpenAI used their literary works to train its ChatGPT service.
“This free tool (AI chatbots) produces book summaries, extracts, why would people buy books then?… This will impact our sales, all members are concerned about this,” added Gupta.
As per the report, the case has so far only been listed before a court registrar who, last month, directed OpenAI to respond in connection with the matter. A judge will now hear the case on January 28.
The Indian and global publishers are also looking to join ANI’s ongoing copyright breach lawsuit against OpenAI in Delhi HC.
This comes days after OpenAI told the Delhi HC that Indian courts do not have the jurisdiction to hear ANI’s copyright infringement case as the company does not have a presence in the country.
The submission came in response to a plea filed by ANI against OpenAI in the Delhi HC, alleging that the AI major used the news agency’s published content to train ChatGPT without permission. ANI has sought the deletion of its data already stored by ChatGPT.
The AI giant, in its submissions, said that it cannot delete the data as it is currently defending a litigation in the US pertaining to the data on which its models have been trained. It added that the US laws require the company to preserve the data while the hearings are pending.
The lawsuit filed by Indian publishers is the latest in the series of legal cases being heard across the world. Many authors, news outlets and musicians have accused technology companies of using their copyrighted work to train AI chatbots and now want the content, which trained these AI systems, to be deleted.
