Delhi High Court: training on copyrighted news is fair dealing, and RAG output doesn't infringe.

On July 24, Justice Amit Bansal denied ANI Media interim relief against OpenAI, holding that LLM training on ANI's content falls under Section 52(1)(a)(i) "private or personal use, including research." The court separately held that retrieval-augmented outputs don't infringe under Section 51 because they weren't substantially similar to the original works. That second holding is the one builders should read closely. It treats retrieval-grounded generation as a legally distinct question from training, in the world's largest ChatGPT market.