Indian Copyright Law: A Primer v1.1 Note This document intends to provide a very quick introduction to Indian copyright law. It is geared towards focusing on those aspects of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, which are most closely associated with GenAI, and does not provide an overview of the statute as a whole. Instead, it aims to help elucidate, in basic terms, the legal framework through which the possibility of GenAI infringing copyright is understood at the points of: content input, data processing, and output generation. It does not comment on any of these issues itself and merely provides background information which could help facilitate discussion. In doing so, it streamlines legal explanations, distills the Indian copyright statute, (over)simplifies statutory caveats, and sacrifices nuance in the service of brevity and what one hopes is clarity. The document cannot and should not be relied on for any purpose other than to help develop an extremely ...
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Nandita Saikia | Exploring copyright, data regulation, and related legal issues from an Indian perspective...