Annabelle Herd, head of the Australian Recording Industry Association, told lawmakers that OpenAI and Anthropic are lobbying the government to weaken copyright protections in their favor. She argued the AI companies want exemptions that would let them use copyrighted music and other content without proper licensing or payment.
Herd warned that if Australia changes its copyright law to accommodate the two firms, it risks becoming what she called “the Trojan horse for Big AI,” potentially setting a precedent that undermines creator rights more broadly. Her comments come amid ongoing global debate over how AI companies should compensate rights holders for training data drawn from copyrighted works.
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