ANI vs OpenAI: India’s Copyright Act is Outdated. Can it Deal with New Legal Conundrums?

Last month, a group of digital news publishers in India sought to join a case filed by news agency ANI in the Delhi High Court accusing the US firm OpenAI of misusing material to which they own the copyright. However, in India, OpenAI faces a major hurdle. India’s Copyright Act of 1957 and related jurisprudence favours the rights of authors and creators and was not designed to deal with the challenges posed by this emerging technology. Further, tortious claims of unfair competition cant apply in such disputes due to precedent.