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 released a proposed framework that would give AI companies access to all copyrighted works for training 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 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.

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