On Tuesday (local time), India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade unveiled a draft framework concerning the utilization of copyrighted content by AI firms. Under this proposed framework, AI companies are required to pay copyright royalties to collective management organizations whenever they employ copyrighted works to train their AI models. This initiative is designed to lower compliance expenses for AI companies while guaranteeing that creators are fairly remunerated.

At present, there is a growing global concern over the practice of AI companies using copyrighted materials to train their models, which has subsequently led to a surge in related legal conflicts. India's proposal emerges against this backdrop.

However, the industry association Nasscom, along with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents technology firms, have raised objections. They are advocating for the inclusion of a 'text and data mining' exemption clause. Despite these objections, the Indian government committee opted not to adopt this approach and instead put forward a 'hybrid model.'

Currently, the Indian government has launched a public consultation process to gather extensive feedback on this proposal. As of now, both OpenAI and Google have refrained from making any comments on the issue.