Description: On 09 December 2025, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released Part I of its working paper on the intersection of generative artificial intelligence and copyright law. The paper sets out the recommendations of an eight-member committee tasked with examining whether India’s existing copyright framework adequately addresses the challenges posed by generative AI.
The Esya Centre is pleased to be afforded an opportunity to provide its inputs on these recommendations .
Our response is structured in two parts. Part A argues that the working paper rests on erroneous assumptions about the nature of copyright and the technical realities of AI model training. Part B contends that the paper’s proposed hybrid model fails to improve outcomes for either content creators or AI developers.
Attribution: Shweta Venkatesan. Part I of DPIIT’s Working Paper on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright