Copyright Puts AI On Trial: Key Takeaways From ANI v. OpenAI

I.     Introduction

1.    On July 24, 2026, the Delhi High Court declined to grant an interim injunction against OpenAI OPCO LLC (“OpenAI“) in a copyright suit filed by ANI Media Private Limited’s (“ANI“) (CS(COMM) 1028/2024). This interim order is India’s first judicial examination of how territorial jurisdiction principles apply to cross-border AI training, artificial intelligence (“AI“)-generated outputs, and the legality of training large language models (“LLMs“) under the (Indian) Copyright Act, 1957 (“Copyright Act“).

2.     ANI alleged infringement on two grounds: (a) OpenAI’s unlicensed use of its copyrighted news content to train the LLMs underlying ChatGPT; and (b) ChatGPT’s reproduction of its works in responses to user prompts.