‘Blueprint for theft’: Australian creative organisations hit out against proposed copyright changes
The Productivity Commission’s proposal to change the Copyright Act to allow technology companies to mine text and data created by Australians to train artificial intelligence has been rejected outright by a number of media bodies, including News Corp, ARIA, and the MEAA.
The “Harnessing Data and Digital Technology” interim report was issued on Tuesday evening, and examines whether a new ‘fair dealing’ exemption should be granted to technology companies in order to train AI models off copyrighted material. It recommended sweeping changes to the current copyright laws.
Last week, Atlassian co-founder and billionaire Scott Farquhar called for an overhaul of Australian copyright laws, saying they were stricter than those in the UK and US, which prevents us from competing with the rest of the world in developing AI models.
