Copyright Ownership Of AI Generated Content In India

After the launch of Chat GPT¹, an Artificial Intelligence ("AI") chatbot developed by OpenAI, that generates responses based on the algorithms and data inputs, the discussion over copyright protection of AI generated work has stirred up again.

The most prominent bottleneck in copyright protection of such work around the world is that copyright law requires such works to be of human authorship by sufficient human input to sustain a claim of copyright over the work. While India is no alien to this criterion, the Parliamentary Standing Committee ("Committee") had, in its Report No. 161 titled "Review of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime in India" recommended review of the Copyright Act, 1957 ("Copyright Act") to expand to scope of authorship in AI-generated works².