TruaceTracing the truth around AIThursday, August 27, 2026
TRV-2026-0069Retracted — remains on the recordJournalism

‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws to be watered down, to allow them to scrape Australian output – including journalism, music and books – in order to improve their AI models. Guardian Australia this week reported on an industry proposal under which companies would commit more than $50bn in investment in datacentres and set up a $350m fund to compensate creatives in exchange for weaker copyright laws. Senator David Pocock has described it as the “ultimate dirty deal”. The Albanese governmen

Media & Arts · The Trace — both readings · certified 2026-07-12 · v2 · article view · machine-readable

This record was retracted on 2026-07-12Retracted from the live record. It remains permanently retrievable here, as does every prior version below.
Current reading — gain

Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws to be watered down, to allow them to scrape Australian output, including journalism, music and books, in order to improve their AI models.

Current reading — problem

It feels like a violation. Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws to be watered down, to allow them to scrape Australian output, including journalism, music and books, in order to improve their AI models.

What this doesn’t fix

Machine-ingested summary: the claims above reflect a single primary source and have not been weighed against contradicting evidence by a Truvace editor yet.

Evidence

Cite this record

Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0069, v2: “‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work.” Truvace, 2026-07-12. /record/TRV-2026-0069 (accessed at citation time). sha256 6fd05960962c2997

Calibration history

Every change to this record since certification, in the open.

  1. Retractedv26fd05960962c

    Retracted from the live record

  2. Certifiedv1e076e8fceec4

    Certified into the record

Verify this record
How to verify without trusting this page

Fetch the canonical text of any version from /api/record/TRV-2026-0069 and hash it yourself — for example shasum -a 256 on the saved canonical field. The result must equal content_hash, and each version’s text ends with prev:followed by the prior version’s hash (version 1 chains to 64 zeros). If a single character of any version had been altered since certification, the chain would not reproduce.