The Federation of Indian Publishers represents Indian publishers including Rupa Publications, S Chand and Co and international publishers such as Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, CUP, and Pan Macmillan.
It filed a lawsuit in December 2024 against OpenAI, alleging that its AI language model, ChatGPT, infringes their copyrights by using their content without permission. Specifically ChatGPT produces book summaries and extracts from unlicensed online copies they say, so therefore ChatGPT, has been trained on unauthorised copyrighted material and is reproducing it.
OpenAI defended the case by saying that all information came from publicly available data, such as Wikipedia or other abstracts, summaries, and related materials on websites, including those belong to publishers.
Open AI is also the subject of a second case, brought by news agency ANI for the same use of content to train its LLMs as well as reproduction through direct outputs on ChatGPT.
There is also extensive US litigation on the same subject and at OpenAI has said that the US litigation means that it may not be able to comply with court orders to delete training data as the US cases require them to preserve evidence.
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