India: Machine Created Intellectual Asset Bill, 2025 (No. 43 of 2025), including public procurement access was introduced to Council of States

On 5 December 2025, the Machine Created Intellectual Asset Bill, 2025 (No. 43 of 2025), including public procurement access, 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 would require the Central Government to encourage the adoption of interoperable formats, open standards, and publicly accessible application programming interfaces in AI systems used by or on behalf of public authorities, particularly for governance and public purposes. It would further require proprietary or closed-source AI systems procured or deployed by a public authority to be subject to prescribed regulatory audit mechanisms and allow for third-party oversight.