A new front has opened in the ongoing legal battle against OpenAI with the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) filing an application to join news agency ANI's copyright infringement lawsuit in the Delhi High Court,

OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit by Indian and international book publishers. The case, filed in New Delhi, is part of a global legal effort to stop the ChatGPT chatbot from using copyrighted content.

Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the latest in a series of global cases seeking to stop the ChatGPT chatbot accessing proprietary content.

OpenAI faces a new copyright case filed by Indian publishers in the Delhi High Court. Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court.

Multiple domestic and global book publishers have reportedly banded together and sued AI giant OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement.

The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) claimed the case by major publishing houses such as Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press, Pan Macmillan, and several Indian ones for using their own copyrighted works to train its AI models for ChatGPT.

OpenAI argued that the Delhi High Court lacks jurisdiction over the case because the company does not have any physical presence or servers in India

In the most high-profile and closely tracked lawsuit on AI use in India, ANI sued OpenAI in Delhi in November, accusing it of using the news agency's published content without permission to train ChatGPT.

Indian book publishers and their global counterparts have sued Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI in New Delhi, India, over alleged use of copyright content for training AI models, Reuters reported.