*

OpenAI filing says publishers body's case should be

dismissed

*

OpenAI denies using original literary work in training its

large

language model

By Arpan Chaturvedi and Aditya Kalra

NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - OpenAI has asked an Indian

court to quash a plea by a group representing Indian and global

book publishers that accuse it of copyright breaches, arguing

its ChatGPT service only disseminates public information, legal

papers show.

The case, which began with legal action last year by local

news agency ANI, will be heard in New Delhi on Tuesday. It has

the potential to shape the legal framework for artificial

intelligence in India - OpenAI's second-largest market by number

of users.

In recent weeks, book publishers and almost a dozen digital

media outlets, including those owned by billionaires Gautam

Adani and Mukesh Ambani, have joined the case to challenge the

AI giant.

The Federation of Indian Publishers, which represents many

Indian firms and likes of Bloomsbury and Penguin Random

House, has argued ChatGPT produces book summaries and extracts

from unlicensed online copies, hurting their business.

OpenAI countered that the information was drawn from

platforms like Wikipedia or abstracts, summaries, tables of

content made publicly available on the websites of the

publishers in question, according to a Jan. 26 non-public court

filing seen by Reuters.

"Web-crawlers are designed to only access publically

available data," OpenAI said in its 21-page response to the book

publishers's argument.

The book publishers have "entirely failed to demonstrate

even a single instance" that OpenAI services are trained on

"original literary work," it said.

Pranav Gupta, secretary of the federation, told Reuters that

most book-related content being shown by ChatGPT was scraped

from websites that have licensing arrangements with book

publishers.

OpenAI maintains it only uses publicly available data in a

manner protected by fair use principles. Asked for comment on

Tuesday, it referred Reuters to its earlier statements and the

court filing challenging the book publishers.

OpenAI has also said, in its initial response to the ANI

case, that Indian judges have no jurisdiction to hear a case

against it as its servers are located abroad.

The case is one of many that is being heard globally in

which authors, news organisations and musicians have accused

technology firms of using their copyrighted work to train AI

services without permission or license.