The vendor will display a newspaper containing front page articles on the Indian-Pakistan conflict in Amritsar on May 8th. Photo Credit: AFP
Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), an industry association for traditional media organizations with major printing presences, was called on Saturday (June 21, 2025) for copyright protection in training of artificial intelligence models. The statement is because the DNPA and other organizations contribute to the review of the “intersection” between AI and copyright made to promote industry and internal trade under the Department of Commerce.
This review was conducted by the AI Committee and the Copyright Committee, which was formed by DPIIT in April, with two meetings held on Thursday and Friday. The committee is led by DPIIT Secretary General Himani Pande.
“DNPA firmly believes that using digital news publishers' content without consent for AI training and subsequently generated AI applications such as search support and information purposes constitutes copyright infringement,” the industry group said in a statement. Hindus I'm a DNPA member.
“Fair compensation”
“The association is defending a government that ensures fair compensation for content producers and recognizes their rights in the digital landscape. The Indian government's initiative to ensure fair play in this respect is essential to the growth of the domestic digital news media sector.”
In January, the DNPA intervened in a copyright lawsuit filed by Delhi High Court Newswire Agency Asia News International (ANI), claiming that training the ChatGPT maker's model on publicly available news content “threatening the intellectual property rights of publishers.” A spokesman for Openai defended the training of companies with models like ChatGPT, saying that the use of public content is “supported by years of widely accepted legal precedent.”
Published – June 21, 2025, 10:20pm
