India: New Technology

In March 2026, in California, a Los Angeles jury in the case of K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., found Meta and Google liable for a young woman’s depression and suicidal thoughts after she claimed that she became addictive to social media platforms at 9-years. The jury found Meta Platforms and Google liable for the depression, anxiety, body image disorders, and suicidal ideation suffered by a young woman who had become addicted to Instagram and YouTube from the age of nine. The jury awarded USD 3 million in damages, Meta bearing 70% of responsibility, Google the remaining 30%.[1]

The Delhi High Court dismissed ANI Media's application to restrain OpenAI from using its news content to train ChatGPT, finding that the AI training qualified as fair dealing under Indian copyright law. While the court accepted ANI's copyright ownership, it held that ChatGPT's transformative outputs and the fact-expression distinction in news reporting weighed against infringement, though the ruling remains non-precedential and subject to appeal.

As employees adapt to utilizing AI technologies in generating their work output, there exists a major disconnect among IP laws (both globally and in India) regarding who owns the copyright, patent, or trade secret in a work that was produced using AI technologies. Is it the employer, employee, or AI tool provider; all three parties could have an interest in these types of works?