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Creatives Warn Against Copyright Changes Pushed by Big Tech

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Media and arts leaders have urged Canberra to resist pressure from AI firms to weaken copyright protections, arguing industry claims such changes are needed to unlock data centre investment are overstated.

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Australian media and arts leaders are urging the federal government to reject lobbying from AI firms seeking to weaken copyright protections for training data. The oversight of generative AI training processes is framed as a critical governance issue, with stakeholders arguing that current intellectual property frameworks must be preserved to prevent market dominance by frontier AI developers. Industry groups contend that big tech claims linking copyright deregulation to data centre investment are exaggerated and pose risks to the local creative economy. This debate highlights the tension between accelerating AI capability development and establishing robust ethical and legal guardrails within the Australian policy landscape.

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