The US-based AI company OpenAI is in trouble again. OpenAI has faced another copyright case in India from book publishers. Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi.
According to Reuters, the global as well as Indian book publishers are seeking to stop the ChatGPT chatbot from accessing proprietary content.
The Federation of Indian Book Publishers, based in Delhi, told news agency Reuters that the copyright case was filed in the Delhi High Court against OpenAI on behalf of all the federation’s members, including publishers like Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press, and Pan Macmillan, as well as India’s Rupa Publications and S. Chand and Co.
Further, the federation stated that they had filed the case in court to stop the company from accessing the copyrighted content of all the publishers.
ChatGPT book summarizing tool is a concern for publishers
While talking about the copyright case, the general secretary of the federation, Pranav Gupta, stated that they are concerned about ChatGPT’s book summarizing tool.
“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.”
OpenAI has already faced lawsuits from ANI over the use of copyrighted material
Earlier, the company faced multiple lawsuits from the Indian news agency ANI. The Indian news agency ANI had filed a copyright case over the use of its published material for training OpenAI’s model, ChatGPT, without authorization or permission.
The news agency demanded the deletion of ANI’s data that had already been stored by OpenAI on its AI platform, ChatGPT.
During the hearing of the case, OpenAI, the AI company that trained the chatbot ChatGPT, informed the Delhi High Court that it would cease using ANI’s content. However, the news agency argued that ChatGPT had already stored its published works in memory and should remove them.
In response, OpenAI told the Delhi High Court that complying with any directive to remove the training data used to train ChatGPT would conflict with its legal obligations in the United States. The company also argued that this matter does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Delhi High Court, as OpenAI has no presence in the country.
