"The Albanese government has explicitly ruled out handing tech companies free rein to mine creative content to train their artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from authors and arts and media groups. The attorney general, Michelle Rowland, will confirm the decision on Monday, shutting the door on a contentious proposal floated by the Productivity Commission and backed by tech companies."
"Weeks earlier, Scott Farquhar, the co-founder of software giant Atlassian and chair of the Tech Council of Australia, told the National Press Club that fixing the existing restrictions could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment into Australia. The proposal prompted serious pushback from creatives, including First Nations rapper Adam Briggs, who told a parliamentary inquiry in September that it would be hard to get the genie back in the bottle if companies were allowed access to locally made content without fair compensation."
The Albanese government has ruled out granting technology firms unrestricted rights to mine copyrighted creative content for training artificial intelligence models. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland affirmed a decision to reject a proposal from the Productivity Commission that would have exempted such activity from copyright law. The commission's interim recommendation provoked strong opposition from authors, artists, arts and media groups, and unions. Tech industry figures argued changes could attract substantial foreign investment. Creatives warned of unauthorised appropriation and potential irreparable harm to local cultural industries. The commission acknowledged it had not consulted creatives or modelled the policy impacts, prompting political criticism.
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