India’s AI royalty plan ‘not sustainable’, likely to fail in implementation: Quantum Hub’s Rohit Kumar

India’s proposed mandatory licensing framework for artificial intelligence (AI) companies — which seeks to impose royalty payments on creators’ copyrighted content used for training AI models — is facing early and significant criticism from policy experts.

According to Rohit Kumar, Founding Partner at The Quantum Hub, the framework is “not sustainable” and “likely to fail strongly in implementation” despite the government’s attempt to balance innovation with creator rights.

The government’s working paper, currently open for public…