Overview
- The Motion Picture Association and the Producers Guild of India urged officials to reject blanket training exemptions and adopt a licensing regime, according to letters submitted in August.
- The Business Software Alliance asked for a Text and Data Mining exception in a July filing to permit lawful AI training on copyrighted material.
- India’s copyright law was last updated in 2012, and the review panel chaired by commerce ministry official Himani Pande is expected to deliver recommendations to senior officials in the coming weeks.
- Film studios warn AI tools can scrape trailers and other media, including pirated copies, and they oppose an EU‑style opt‑out system that they say shifts enforcement burdens onto creators.
- Parallel disputes heighten the stakes, with Warner Bros suing Midjourney in Los Angeles over training practices and a Bollywood couple challenging YouTube over AI‑generated deepfakes, as the country’s screen sector generated $13.1 billion last year.