Innovation Under Licence: A Critical Analysis of DPIIT’s Generative AI Copyright Proposal

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (“DPIIT”), on 8 December 2025, published a working paper titled “Generative AI and Copyright, Part I: One Nation, One Licence, One Payment: Balancing AI and Innovation”. The paper presents copyright issues related to the training of generative AI systems and provides a hybrid form of licensing […]