The government has proposed that technology companies using content creators’ data to train their artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) pay royalties to these creators at a rate set by the government or a court.
The new framework, proposed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, observes that payment for this blanket licence should be collected by a unified industry body, which would then be responsible for distributing the proceeds among content creators.
DPIIT released these guidelines as part of a working paper late Monday night, giving

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