The government’s recommendation to make AI firms pay a portion of their earnings towards royalties to content creators — whose data the developers use to train AI models — will be linked to their global revenue, and not to what they earn in India, a senior official from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), said Thursday. Earlier this week, a committee set up by the DPIIT released its working paper titled ‘One Nation, One License, One Payment: Balancing AI Innovation and Copyright’, which made sweeping recommendations for a new framework for AI training, including a mandatory blanket license requiring all AI companies to pay royalties for using copyrighted work to creators. It has also recommended the creation of a government-appointed panel to decide the royalty fee. Simrat Kaur, Director at DPIIT, told reporters that the government-appointed committee can set a certain percentage of the global revenue earned by an AI developer from the commercialisation of the AI system trained on copyrighted content to calculate the royalty they would have to pay …