India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content (techcrunch.com)
(Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the better-late-than-never dept.)
- Reference: 0180357575
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/10/2148259/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch:
> On Tuesday, India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade [1]released a proposed framework that would give AI companies access to all copyrighted works for training [2]in exchange for paying royalties to a new collecting body composed of rights-holding organizations , with payments then distributed to creators. The proposal argues that this "mandatory blanket license" would lower compliance costs for AI firms while ensuring that writers, musicians, artists, and other rights holders are compensated when their work is scraped to train commercial models. [...]
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> The eight-member committee, formed by the Indian government in late April, argues the system would avoid years of legal uncertainty while ensuring creators are compensated from the outset. Defending the system, the committee says in a [3]125-page submission (PDF) that a blanket license "aims to provide an easy access to content for AI developers reduce transaction costs [and] ensure fair compensation for rightsholders," calling it the least burdensome way to manage large-scale AI training. The submission adds that the single collecting body would function as a "single window," eliminating the need for individual negotiations and enabling royalties to flow to both registered and unregistered creators.
[1] https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2200741
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content/
[3] https://www.dpiit.gov.in/static/uploads/2025/12/ff266bbeed10c48e3479c941484f3525.pdf
> On Tuesday, India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade [1]released a proposed framework that would give AI companies access to all copyrighted works for training [2]in exchange for paying royalties to a new collecting body composed of rights-holding organizations , with payments then distributed to creators. The proposal argues that this "mandatory blanket license" would lower compliance costs for AI firms while ensuring that writers, musicians, artists, and other rights holders are compensated when their work is scraped to train commercial models. [...]
>
> The eight-member committee, formed by the Indian government in late April, argues the system would avoid years of legal uncertainty while ensuring creators are compensated from the outset. Defending the system, the committee says in a [3]125-page submission (PDF) that a blanket license "aims to provide an easy access to content for AI developers reduce transaction costs [and] ensure fair compensation for rightsholders," calling it the least burdensome way to manage large-scale AI training. The submission adds that the single collecting body would function as a "single window," eliminating the need for individual negotiations and enabling royalties to flow to both registered and unregistered creators.
[1] https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2200741
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/india-proposes-charging-openai-google-for-training-ai-on-copyrighted-content/
[3] https://www.dpiit.gov.in/static/uploads/2025/12/ff266bbeed10c48e3479c941484f3525.pdf
Individuals will lose out (Score:2)
by Alain Williams ( 2972 )
This will benefit corporations who will be able to jump through the hoops to register all their works; small authors, photographers, musicians will not benefit. I know several small, independent bands in the UK and have been told that it is not worth the time to register with PPL/PRS yet my folk club needs to pay PPL/PRS an annual fee for use of music - much of which is by these small bands.
No (Score:2)
by Bahbus ( 1180627 )
How about we instead tell copyright trolls to go fuck themselves?
I Propose Honesty (Score:3)
Why not just charge them because they have so much money?
Also, we all know that near zero percent of any money collected is going to actually reach creators.