Mr. Navneet Krishna, Faculty, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow ABSTRACT On 24 July 2026, the Delhi High Court refused Asian News International’s application for an interim injunction against OpenAI, holding at a prima facie stage that the use of ANI’s copyrighted news content to train the large language models underlying ChatGPT falls within the fair dealing exception in Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Celebrated in some quarters as a victory for innovation, the...