ANI filed an appeal challenging Justice Amit Bansal's July 24 single-judge order, which had declined to grant ANI interim relief in its copyright infringement suit against OpenAI. The single judge held that OpenAI's storing of ANI's original works to train the large language models underlying ChatGPT amounted to machine learning of stored literary works by screening and organising them, and fell within the fair-dealing exception under India's Copyright Act, 1957. ANI's appeal was listed before a Division Bench headed by Justice V. Kameswar Rao on September 8, but the bench did not sit because Justice Rao has been appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court. The matter is now listed for September 14. ANI has separately alleged that ChatGPT verbatim reproduces its original news content in responses and has attributed fabricated statements to the agency. The underlying single-judge ruling is, so far, India's only judicial pronouncement on whether AI companies may train models on copyrighted news content, making the appeal's outcome closely watched by Indian publishers and AI companies operating in the Indian market alike.