Australia begins two-day review to balance AI innovation with creator rights

The Australian government is working to protect its creators through stronger copyright ￰0￱ tomorrow, lawmakers in the country will spend two days reviewing copyright laws to find a middle ground between creators and the AI developers who need access to their ￰1￱ to a statement the Attorney-General’s Department put out on Sunday, the meeting will be run by the Copyright and AI Reference Group, with important voices from both the tech world and creative industries in ￰2￱ agenda will be to find an efficient solution that protects creators without hindering ￰3￱ re-examines its copyright rules The Australian government is hosting a two-day meeting beginning Monday to review its copyright laws, which have failed to keep pace with how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing.

Artists, publishers, and media organizations have voiced their opposition to AI developers using their work without permission or ￰4￱ creators argue that copyright laws in their current state just weren’t designed to deal with AI systems that train themselves on enormous amounts of data, much of which is protected by ￰5￱ government has stated that it will look into whether a paid licensing system can be arranged under the Copyright ￰6￱ this is successful, AI companies would have to pay creators or whoever owns the rights when their work gets used to train AI models. They’re also considering making it cheaper and less complicated to enforce copyright ￰7￱ idea is to make it easier for creators to fight back when someone uses their work without permission.

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that there are no plans to relax the existing copyright ￰8￱ stated that what the government is really trying to do is make sure both creators and developers can benefit from technological ￰9￱ developers won’t get free data The Australian government has decided against introducing a text and data mining exception, which would’ve let AI developers use creative works without paying ￰10￱ countries like Japan and Singapore have created limited exceptions that let AI systems use publicly available data for training ￰11￱ Australian officials believe that giving AI a free pass would hurt local creators and could open the door to their work being exploited on a massive scale.

“AI systems rely on large volumes of data, much of which is created by human effort and creativity,” Rowland ￰12￱ added that the tech and creative industries need to figure out a compromise that works for ￰13￱ from the technology industry are warning that if the restrictions are too harsh, it could slow down innovation and leave Australia trailing in the global AI ￰14￱ argument is that AI researchers and developers need at least some access to data if the sector is going to move ￰15￱ you're reading this, you’re already ￰16￱ there with our newsletter .