Government Body Recommends AI Companies Pay Royalties to Rightsholders for Copyrighted Content
DPIIT has proposed a mandatory blanket licensing system to address copyright concerns around AI training in India. The draft paper recommends requiring companies like Google and OpenAI to pay a flat royalty when commercial models are trained on copyrighted works, with payments managed by a new central body. The plan rejects free use or opt-out schemes, arguing they disadvantage creators. Public feedback is invited over the next 30 days.
