Delhi court rules AI training counts as private use in OpenAI case

The Delhi High Court rejected an injunction sought by Indian news agency ANI against OpenAI, for the first time classifying AI training as private use under Indian law. ANI's case was weakened because it cited articles published after the models were trained. The main copyright trial is still pending.

Why it matters: This is one of the first judicial rulings anywhere to directly address whether AI training counts as "use" of copyrighted material, and a private-use classification could become a reference point for pending AI copyright suits in other jurisdictions. It's a win for AI developers facing a global wave of training-data lawsuits, though the underlying ANI trial isn't resolved yet.