# ARIA boss warns Australian politicians on AI lobbying demands

> ARIA CEO criticizes AI firms' push to bypass copyright laws in Australia.
- Title: ARIA boss warns Australian politicians on AI lobbying demands
- Summary: ARIA CEO criticizes AI firms' push to bypass copyright laws in Australia. ARIA's CEO warns that AI companies' proposed rules would devastate Australia's…
- Keywords: aria, openai, anthropic, australian government, copyright law, ai lobbying, music, business, technology, boss, warns, Australian
- Source: Music Ally — https://musically.com/2026/10/06/aria-boss-warns-australian-politicians-on-ai-lobbying-demands
- Author: Stuart Dredge
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:30:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: aria, openai, anthropic, australian government, copyright law, ai lobbying, music, business, technology
## 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
## Key takeaway

ARIA's CEO warns that AI companies' proposed rules would devastate Australia's music industry and isolate rights holders globally.