OpenAI to face Adani's NDTV, Ambani's Network18, along with Indian Express, HT in copyright battle
New Delhi: OpenAI is facing a legal battle as the digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, along with outlets like the Indian Express and Hindustan Times, have reportedly challenged the company over allegations of improper use of copyrighted content.
According to a Reuters report, media outlets including Adani's NDTV and Ambani's Network18 have informed a New Delhi court of their intent to join an ongoing lawsuit against the creator of ChatGPT, as they are worried that their news websites are being scraped to store and reproduce their work to users of the powerful AI tool.
The 135-page legal filing, reviewed by the news agency, claims that OpenAI's actions pose "a clear and present danger to the valuable copyrights" of the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) members and other news organisations. The filing specifically highlights OpenAI’s "wilful scraping and adaptation of content".
OpenAI did not respond to Reuters' request for comment regarding the new allegations. However, OpenAI has denied similar allegations in the past, maintaining that its AI systems make fair use of publicly available data.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
