New Delhi, May 14 -- A key member of the newly formed committee tasked with examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on India's copyright law has said they were added without consultation and have written to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) requesting to be replaced by someone with AI expertise.

The committee, formed by DPIIT under the ministry of commerce & industry on April 28, will analyse the legal and policy issues arising from the use of AI in the context of copyright as well as examine the adequacy of existing provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957. At the end of this process the committee members will prepare and finalise a working paper with their recommendations, which will be publi...