Delhi High Court hands OpenAI a win by rejecting major Indian news agency's copyright injunction

Delhi High Court refused ANI’s request for an interim injunction against OpenAI.

The court said ANI’s examples did not show verbatim copying and that some cited articles appeared after the model training cutoff.

It also suggested AI training copies may fall under an Indian copyright exception for private use or research, if sourcing and internal use limits are met.

The ruling gives OpenAI an early win in India, while leaving RAG, memorization, and exact-copy claims for the main case.