AI lobbying in Australia

Australia is one of the countries where the music industry is slugging it out with tech companies to win politicians' ears.

ARIA CEO's warning

ARIA's CEO Annabelle Herd criticized openai and anthropic's lobbying goals for training ai agents without copyright compliance.

AI companies' proposed rule

Openai and anthropic want australia to sign a deal training frontier ai agents without abiding by copyright laws.

“openai and anthropic want the australian government to sign up to a deal to train their frontier ai agents here on the proviso that they don’t have to abide by our copyright laws”

Herd's argument

Herd says changing copyright law to legalise ongoing piracy would worsen mass piracy issues.

“their reason? the world’s richest and most advanced companies say it would be too costly and complex to work with rights holders”

Herd's call to action

Herd urged ai companies to negotiate with music industry, not prime minister’s office.

“herd called for the ai companies to “come to the negotiating table, not to the prime minister’s office””

Global impact warning

Herd warned that australia's decision could assist ai firms in us lawsuits.

“if we go down a path and declare that there’s no licensing market, australia deciding to upend the global licensing market and say there isn’t one, then that will assist them in their us lawsuits”