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BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Go-ahead for sofa surfer's 'unique' Dartmoor home
A sofa surfer with a plan to transform a redundant chapel on Dartmoor into an affordable home has been told his ideas are just what the moor Sinjun Saunders told members of the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) that he was the custodian of the old Methodist chapel at Crockernwell and he planned an "aesthetically pleasing" new said he was currently "sofa surfing" – staying with friends – but he and his partner would live in the new home which would have bird and bat boxes to care for local concrete-block pebble-dash chapel was built in 1980 but closed due to falling numbers and an ageing population. There were no objections to the plan and West Devon Borough Council's affordable housing team gave its support as did Drewsteignton Parish said it would help keep the village "vibrant and alive".Mr Saunders agreed to a condition that the property should always be occupied by a local person who was in need of a home and could not afford the current market prices in the director of spatial planning Dean Kinsella told the meeting the plan was "unique" and would not open the door for anyone with a derelict building on the moor."Every site is different," he said. "This is a single unique position."Members voted unanimously to let Mr Saunders go chairman Mark Dracup said: "This is exactly what Dartmoor needs."
Indian Express
02-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Blocking of AI web crawlers in US & UK leads to calls for fair revenue share in India
As international momentum builds against the unauthorised scraping of journalistic content by artificial intelligence (AI) companies, Indian digital news publishers have renewed calls for fair revenue sharing in India as well. This comes in response to a landmark development in the US and UK, where major publishers have begun to block AI web crawlers by default, backed by a new initiative from Cloudflare, one of the world's largest internet infrastructure companies. More than a dozen global news organisations – including Associated Press, The Atlantic, Sky News, Time, Buzzfeed, Conde Nast, and DMGT – are part of this effort to protect original journalism from unauthorised AI exploitation. Indian publishers, represented by industry groups such as the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), have been actively protesting against what they term 'unauthorised data theft' by AI developers. Many publishers in India report that their news content, painstakingly created by human editors and journalists, is being used without consent or compensation to train commercial AI models. Some have already taken steps to join forces and explore legal challenges to such practices. 'The situation in India is becoming increasingly untenable,' said a spokesperson for DNPA. 'While global players are waking up to importance of permission and fair compensation, Indian news content continues to be freely exploited without dialogue or safeguards. We urge the Government of India to take immediate steps to take necessary measures against such unauthorised and rampant data scraping,' he said. The global move has major ramifications for India. Cloudflare's announcement that it will now block AI scrapers by default on all new domains signals a significant industry shift. Website owners, including publishers, can now explicitly choose which AI crawlers to allow – and under what terms. DNPA and other digital publishers have called on the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and the I&B Ministry to recognise unauthorised AI scraping as a violation of copyright and mandate consent-based access for AI training. It also sought to support the creation of an Indian licensing framework, possibly modeled on those now emerging in the West, along with providing technological tools, in partnership with firms like Cloudflare, to empower smaller publishers. 'India has the potential to be a global AI leader – but not by trampling on the rights of its own creators,' said a senior editor from a national digital daily.
Indian Express
02-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
India must act: Publishers sound alarm on AI's ‘theft' of news content
As leading publishers in the US and UK clamp down on artificial intelligence (AI) companies scraping news content without consent, Indian digital media houses are ramping up pressure on the government to step in and protect journalistic work from being 'exploited' by commercial AI models. The development follows a sweeping move by major global players, including the Associated Press, The Atlantic, Sky News, Time, Buzzfeed, Conde Nast, and DMGT, to block AI bots from crawling their websites by default. The effort is being supported by Cloudflare, one of the world's largest internet infrastructure firms, which has announced a new system that gives publishers granular control over AI access to their sites. Indian publishers say the problem of unauthorised AI scraping has reached alarming proportions with no legal safeguards, licensing systems, or enforcement mechanisms in place. 'The situation in India is becoming increasingly untenable,' said a spokesperson for the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), a key industry body. 'While global players are waking up to the importance of permission and fair compensation, Indian news content continues to be freely exploited without dialogue or safeguards. We urge the Government of India to take immediate steps to take necessary measures against such unauthorised and rampant data scrapping,' the spokersperson said in a press statement. According to Cloudflare, OpenAI's GPTBot alone accounted for nearly 30 per cent of all AI-related web scraping in May 2025, a sixfold increase from just a year earlier. Other major scrapers include Meta's External Agent and Anthropic's ClaudeBot. Cloudflare's new approach gives publishers the option to allow or block AI crawlers and even tag them based on intent, whether the bot is scraping for model training, search indexing, or inference purposes. Crucially, the company is also testing a 'pay-per-crawl' model that could allow news outlets to charge AI firms directly for accessing their content. 'This is a game-changer for publishers,' said Roger Lynch, CEO of Conde Nast. 'When AI companies can no longer take anything they want for free, it opens the door to sustainable innovation built on permission and partnership.' But in India, publishers have few tools at their disposal. Unlike in the US and UK, where AI companies now face increasing legal scrutiny and regulatory pushback, Indian media houses are still operating in a grey zone. The DNPA and other digital publishers have now jointly called on the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) to urgently act on the following demands: 'India has the potential to be a global AI leader – but not by trampling on the rights of its own creators,' said a senior editor from a leading digital news platform. 'We must innovate responsibly, with laws that value original content and protect public trust.'
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Business Standard
21-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Digital news publishers' body backs copyright protection in AI training use
New Delhi The Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) has welcomed the Ministry of Commerce and Industry's initiative to review the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law, calling it a crucial step for ensuring fair treatment of digital content producers. In an official statement released on Friday, the DNPA said, 'Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) welcomes the initiative of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry to conduct a review of the intersection between copyright and AI technologies and in seeking stakeholder feedback and concerns.' The association pointed out that the unauthorised use of digital publishers' content for AI model training and generative tools infringes on copyright protections. 'DNPA firmly believes that utilising the content of digital news publishers, without consent, for AI training and subsequent generative AI applications, such as search assistance and information purposes, constitutes an infringement of copyright,' it said. Fair compensation for digital content creators The association also urged the government to ensure a framework that upholds the rights of content creators while facilitating innovation. 'The association advocates for a regime that ensures fair compensation for content producers, recognising their rights in the digital landscape. Any initiative of the Government of India to ensure fair play in this regard is vital for the growth of Digital News Media sector in the country.' Looking ahead, the DNPA expressed its willingness to collaborate with policymakers: 'DNPA looks forward to working with the Ministry to formulate a fair and balanced regime that allows for fair compensation for content producers while allowing for AI models to build and evolve.' The statement concluded by clarifying the association's intent: 'This statement is released to respond to multiple press queries and to maintain the sanctity of the process undertaken by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.'
The Hindu
21-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
DNPA calls for protection of copyright in AI model training on news content
The Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA), an industry body of traditional media organisations with a major print presence, called on Saturday (June 21, 2025) for the protection of copyright in training of Artificial Intelligence models. The statement comes as DNPA and other organisations contribute to a review of the 'intersection' between AI and copyright being undertaken by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the Ministry of Commerce. The review is being undertaken by a committee on AI and copyright constituted by the DPIIT in April, and two meetings took place on Thursday and Friday. The committee is headed by DPIIT Secretary Himani Pande. 'DNPA firmly believes that utilising the content of digital news publishers, without consent, for AI training and subsequent generative AI applications, such as search assistance and information purposes, constitutes an infringement of copyright,' the industry group said in a statement. The Hindu is a DNPA member. 'Fair compensation' 'The association advocates for a regime that ensures fair compensation for content producers, recognising their rights in the digital landscape. Any initiative of the Government of India to ensure fair play in this regard is vital for the growth of the digital news media sector in the country.' In January, DNPA intervened in a copyright lawsuit being filed by the newswire agency Asian News International (ANI) in the Delhi High Court, arguing the ChatGPT maker OpenAI's training of its models on publicly available news content 'threatens the intellectual property rights of publishers'. An OpenAI spokesperson defended the company's training of models like ChatGPT, saying its use of public content was 'supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents'.
