India: Machine Created Intellectual Asset Bill, 2025 (No. 43 of 2025), including copyright protection regulation was introduced to Council of States

On 5 December 2025, the Machine Created Intellectual Asset Bill, 2025 (No. 43 of 2025), including copyright protection regulation was introduced to the Council of States of the Parliament of India. The Bill seeks to establish a legal framework to regulate intellectual and creative outputs generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The Bill applies to AI developers, model providers, platforms, and users of both free and paid AI models. The Bill defines AI-generated work which do not quality as works of human authorship under existing copyright law. The Bill would set statutory rules for attribution, assigning authorship to the directing user for paid models, joint authorship to users and model providers for free or open-source models, and residual ownership to the entity controlling the AI system where no human author is identifiable. It further introduces a rebuttable presumption of authorship based on digital credentials, confers economic rights to use, reproduce, license, assign, and enforce AI-generated works, and extends moral rights of attribution and integrity. The Bill treats outputs substantially derived from copyrighted human works as derivative works subject to existing licensing and moral rights. Entities seeking exclusive rights in AI-generated works would need to apply for the registration of the content with the AI Authority created by the Bill. Finally, the Bill defines situations which do not constitute infringements of machine created intellectual assets, such as fair dealing, AI model training, or transient storage.