There are three takeaways in the the Delhi High Court’s recent decision in ANI v. OpenAI. OpenAI contended that its activities qualified as research, an activity deemed non-infringing under the law. ANI’s position, however, effectively confined the protection accorded to research to activities undertaken by human beings. In the context of AI and copyright, this matters because research, analysis, and learning should not lose protections because humans are being assisted by machines. Otherwise, every technological advance could turn laws intended to encourage creativity and learning into barriers for innovation.