This thesis began with uncertainty. It ends with a proposal. The Directed Creativity Doctrine provides principled, workable guidance for evaluating AI assisted authorship under Indian copyright law. The framework does not resolve every question. Grey zones remain. Hard cases persist. Technology will evolve. But the DCD provides the structured analysis, operational clarity, and principled foundation that courts, registration authorities, and creators need.
Copyright law has repeatedly adapted to technological change. The printing press, photography, sound recording, digital reproduction. Each innovation required doctrinal development. Generative AI is the latest chapter in this ongoing adaptation. Indian copyright law possesses the resources to write that chapter well. The Modak standard provides substance. Section 2(d)(vi) provides textual foundation. The DCD provides operational framework. What remains is the will to act.