Fair Dealing
21 articles tagged with "Fair Dealing".
Delhi High Court’s ANI v. OpenAI Ruling: India’s First AI Training Copyright Verdict Rewrites Fair Dealing for the LLM Era
A Watershed Moment for Indian Copyright Law The Delhi High Court has delivered what practitioners are calling India’s most consequential copyright ruling in a generation. In ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI Inc. , the Court held — prima facie — that Ope...
Delhi High Court's AI Training Bombshell: Why ANI v. OpenAI Could Rewrite Copyright Litigation Strategy in India
The Fair Dealing Gambit That Nobody Saw Coming The Delhi High Court has just handed the Indian technology sector its most consequential copyright development in years—and most practitioners are still digesting the implications. In the ongoing ANI v. ...
Data Blackouts and AI Fair Dealing: The Supreme Court and Delhi HC Rewrite India's Tech Law Landscape in 2026
The theoretical debates surrounding India’s technology and data regime are officially over. As we navigate the latter half of 2026, the friction between the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and legacy legislations has spilled out of ...
The Death of the Public Interest Test? Supreme Court Kicks DPDP-RTI Clash Down the Road While Delhi HC Drops an AI Copyright Bombshell
The Constitutional Standoff: Privacy vs. Transparency For years, Indian technology lawyers have treated the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 as a theoretical compliance hurdle. In 2026, the theory has violently collided with practice...
The Compliance Trap: Supreme Court Refuses DPDP Stay While Delhi HC Drops an AI ‘Fair Dealing’ Bombshell
For Indian tech and IP lawyers, 2026 has rapidly become a year of jurisprudential whiplash. If you have been advising clients to hit the snooze button on Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act compliance while waiting for the Supreme Court to so...
Fair Dealing for LLMs and a Ghost Regulator: How the Courts are Rewriting India's Tech and IP Landscape in 2026
The Collision of Constitutional Privacy and Copyright in the AI Era If you are advising tech clients, media houses, or data fiduciaries in 2026, the ground beneath your feet is shifting rapidly. The Supreme Court and the High Courts are currently unt...
The DPDP Act is Bulletproof (For Now): SC Refuses Stay While Delhi HC Drops an AI Copyright Bombshell
The "Wait and Watch" Era is Officially Over If your clients were banking on constitutional courts to hit the pause button on the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 , it is time to wake them up. In a decisive move this week, the Supreme...
Delhi HC Grants 'Fair Dealing' Pass to AI Training, While Supreme Court's DPDP Limbo Forces Corporate India to Comply Blindly
The Generative AI Copyright Shield: Delhi High Court Stretches Section 52(1)(a) For IP practitioners watching the collision between generative AI and copyright law, the wait for Indian jurisprudence is over—and the initial results are highly alarming...
The RTI Blackout and AI’s ‘Fair Dealing’ Pass: Why 2026 is Stress-Testing India’s Tech Laws
For Indian technology and privacy lawyers, 2026 is shaping up to be a crucible. The courts are currently grappling with the operational reality of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, and the existential intellectual property threat...
The DPDP Juggernaut Rolls On Without a Driver, While Delhi HC Drops an AI Copyright Bombshell
A Perilous Momentum for Tech and IP Lawyers in 2026 If you are advising tech companies, media houses, or data fiduciaries in 2026, the regulatory ground beneath your feet is fracturing. The Supreme Court has officially begun hearing a slew of constit...
The AI Copyright Bombshell & The DPDP Reality Check: Why Delhi HC’s ‘Fair Dealing’ View Changes Everything
The Twin Pillars of Tech Law Just Shifted If you are an Indian tech, media, or privacy lawyer, the last two weeks of judicial developments have fundamentally rewritten your immediate strategy. We are seeing a seismic clash between legacy statutes and...
The Transparency Purge & The AI Loophole: The Supreme Court’s DPDP Stance and Delhi HC’s OpenAI Bombshell
The Collision of Privacy, Transparency, and Innovation For Indian tech and media lawyers, 2026 is shaping up to be the year where the traditional silos of privacy, intellectual property, and constitutional law finally collapse into a single, chaotic ...
Privacy as a Sword? The Supreme Court’s DPDP-RTI Conundrum and Delhi HC’s AI Copyright Pivot
The Erosion of Transparency: DPDP Act vs. RTI Act For technology and constitutional lawyers alike, 2026 is shaping up to be the year the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 finally bares its teeth—not just as a privacy shield, but poten...
The 2026 Tech Law Paradox: SC Greenlights DPDP Compliance Without a Regulator, While Delhi HC Blesses AI Scraping
The DPDP Compliance Clock is Ticking—Even if the Regulator is a Ghost Corporate India’s data compliance clock is officially ticking, and the Supreme Court has made it clear that constitutional challenges will not buy your clients any extra time. In a...
The Privacy Shield or the Transparency Gag? How the DPDP Act is Rewriting RTI, While the Delhi HC Drops an AI Copyright Bombshell
The Collision of Privacy and Transparency For practicing lawyers, 2026 is rapidly shaping up to be the year where theoretical technology law finally collides with the gritty reality of constitutional litigation. The Supreme Court’s recent moves regar...
The Great AI Cop-Out: How the DPDP Act and Copyright 'Fair Dealing' Just Became India's De Facto AI Law
If you were holding your breath for a bespoke, European-style Artificial Intelligence regulation in India, it is time to exhale and look at the statutes already sitting on your desk. In a defining policy pivot for 2026, the Ministry of Electronics an...
The Tech Law Paradox: Delhi HC Gives AI a 'Fair Dealing' Pass While the DPDP Act Faces Constitutional Fire
A Schizophrenic Approach to Digital Regulation If the last few months of Indian technology and intellectual property law have proven anything, it is that we are operating in a state of regulatory schizophrenia. On one hand, the State is tightening th...
AI Gets a Copyright Pass While Privacy Law Survives the SC: The Tech Law Reckoning of 2026
If you are a technology, media, and telecom (TMT) or IP lawyer in India, the jurisprudence of the last few weeks has fundamentally rewritten your advisory playbook. The Supreme Court has cautiously allowed the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) ...
The 2026 Tech Law Tipping Point: SC Refuses DPDP Stay While Delhi HC Hands OpenAI a ‘Fair Dealing’ Pass
If there was any lingering hope among corporate counsel that India’s technology and privacy frameworks would remain in a state of suspended animation, 2026 has violently dispelled it. In two distinct but equally monumental developments, the Supreme C...
Retrofitting the Law: Delhi HC’s AI "Fair Dealing" Call and the 3-Hour Takedown Rule Upend Indian Tech Practice
For technology and intellectual property lawyers in India, the writing on the wall for 2026 is unmistakably clear: stop waiting for a bespoke Artificial Intelligence Act. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has firmly signa...
The 2026 Tech Law Collision: Supreme Court Greenlights DPDP as Delhi HC Gives AI Training a Copyright Pass
The Grace Period is Over: DPDP is Live and Biting For the past three years, Indian tech lawyers have treated the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 as a looming, but abstract, threat. That era ended in February 2026. The Supreme Court ...
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