India's AI Royalty Plan 'Not Sustainable,' Likely to Fail: Rohit Kumar

• India's proposed mandatory AI licensing framework, requiring royalty payments for copyrighted content used in training, faces significant criticism.
• Policy expert Rohit Kumar deems the framework "not sustainable" and "likely to fail strongly in implementation."
• The plan includes a centralized body to collect royalties from AI companies based on global revenue, with retroactive payments for past data usage.
• A key flaw is calculating royalties on global revenue, leading to attribution challenges for content contribution and integrated AI models.
• The blanket mandatory license, with no creator opt-out, risks stripping agency and undervaluing diverse copyrighted material.

Why It Matters: India's unsustainable AI royalty plan risks innovation and creator compensation.