Madras High Court protects travel content from AI scraping in copyright infringement case

Keshan Infotech vs Oliver Brandt [ PDF ] The Madras High Court recently held that unauthorised use of proprietary content as training data or prompts for large language models, AI-based content generation tools and web scrapers raises a prima facie case of copyright infringement. The matter pertains to Keshan Infotech Pvt Ltd, which operates www[dot]travelandtourworld[dot]com. The company alleged that Oliver Brandt, an Italian editor, was systematically scraping its copyrighted travel-related co