New Delhi’s proposal focuses on democratic AI governance with free data

By T N Ashok

In a dramatic shift in global AI policy, an Indian government panel has recommended that developers of large-language models and other generative AI tools pay royalties to creators whose copyrighted works — from news articles and books to music and films — are used to train AI systems.

The proposal, part of a sweeping working paper released this week, could reshape how companies such as OpenAI, Google (and by extension its AI arm, Google Gemini) operate in one of their fastest-growing markets.

The recommendation, part of the “One Nation, One Licence, One Payment” framework devised by a committee under Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), would make access to copyrighted work

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