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How artificial intelligence is governed: national and international rules, safety and the risks of frontier models, deepfakes, copyright, bias, liability and autonomous weapons. Prelims has asked about the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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Copyright in a machine generated work
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Copyright in a machine generated work turns on authorship: a copyright needs an author, and an author in Indian law is a person.
- Under Section 2(d)(vi) of the Copyright Act, 1957 the author of a computer generated work is the person who causes it to be created.
- Fair dealing is the limited set of uses of a copyrighted work the Act allows without the owner's consent, such as research and reporting.
- Whether training a model on copyrighted text falls within fair dealing is the question the courts are now answering.
What changed
24 Jul 2026
- In a case brought by a news agency against OpenAI, the Delhi High Court took the prima facie view that storing copyrighted work to train a language model falls within fair dealing.
- Its reason was that training supplies the work to no third party; it took the same view of outputs produced by retrieval augmented generation, and the ruling is interim.
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2 Sep 2026
- India's Copyright Office refused to name the AI system DABUS as an author, holding that an author must be a person.
A proposed law on AI
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Artificial intelligence in India is governed through rules under the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been weighing a separate law covering synthetic content, agentic systems and sandboxes for high risk uses.
What changed
22 Jul 2026New
- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is weighing a separate law on artificial intelligence in place of rules under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
- Three strands are under study: consent for synthetically generated content, limits on how much autonomy agentic systems may have, and supervised sandboxes for high risk uses.
Export controls on frontier models
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Export controls on artificial intelligence are curbs on what a country lets out, and they work on scarce hardware such as advanced chips.
- A model whose weights have been published cannot be withdrawn, which limits what controls on models themselves can do.
US order versus India's 2024 advisory
| US executive order, 2026 | India's advisory, March 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Nature | A voluntary testing window of up to 30 days before release | Permission required before launch |
| Scope | Covered frontier models | All untested AI |
| Fate | In force when reported in June 2026 | Withdrawn a fortnight later |
What changed
3 Jul 2026BriefA Chinese firm released a rival open weight model within a day of the restriction; controls work on scarce hardware, but published model weights cannot be withdrawn. The Hindu, 3 Jul 2026: Can caged frontier AI models outrun open ones? (opens in a new tab)
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16 Jun 2026
- Talks between Anthropic and US officials reached no resolution; the government's concern is reported to be a narrow jailbreak that let a user bypass a cybersecurity guardrail.
- India had secured narrow access to Mythos class models through Project Glasswing.
- India spends under 0.7 per cent of GDP on research and development, against over 2.5 per cent in China and over 3 per cent in the US.
Mains: India should not seek self sufficiency across the whole AI value chain but identify which dependencies create strategic exposure, concentrating on compute for sensitive workloads, cyber defence and targeted frontier capabilities; access to frontier AI should be decided under a transparent, globally negotiated framework with third party testing before release.
The Indian Express, 16 Jun 2026: Anthropic and US govt officials hold talks as AI export controls remain in place (opens in a new tab) · The Indian Express, 19 Jun 2026: Anthropic blackout: This is what strategic AI dependence looks like (opens in a new tab) · The Indian Express, 20 Jun 2026: Anthropic blackout episode shows that frontier AI needs global governance (opens in a new tab) · The Hindu, 18 Jun 2026: Innovate or be eaten: On India and an innovative ecosystem (opens in a new tab)