According to Rest of World, India is weighing a framework that would require AI companies to compensate rights holders for data used to train models — a shift from the assumption that scraping publicly available content is fair game. If adopted, such a rule could pressure other jurisdictions to follow suit, forcing AI developers to build licensing and payment pipelines into their data-sourcing operations rather than relying on ex post fair-use defenses.
For data brokers and publishers, this signals a potential new revenue stream, but also new compliance costs for anyone scraping or aggregating Indian content.
Why India's plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global
