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‘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

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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.

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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.

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