October 3, 2025
Australian AI startups are publicly committing to paying Australians for the use of their content for AI development. They include Sovereign Australia AI and Maincode (whose CEO gave evidence at this week’s Senate inquiry on implications of AI for Australian culture). Copyright Agency has met with representatives of each company to better understand their plans, […]
August 6, 2025
Copyright Agency welcomes the Government’s continued support for Australia’s world-leading copyright system. In an interview on ABC today Industry Minister Tim Ayres said that the Government had no plans to change Australia’s copyright law in relation to artificial intelligence (AI), and that there is no ambiguity about its application to the use of other people’s […]
May 21, 2025
Copyright Agency is pleased to announce an extension of its Annual Business Licence that allows staff of licensed businesses to use news media content as part of prompts for AI tools that are used in the workplace. This extension follows external research showing widespread and increasing use of AI tools in Australian businesses. Staff in […]
May 20, 2025
Copyright Agency is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies. It reports annually on its compliance with the Code to the Annual Code Reviewer, a former judge of the Federal Court. The Annual Code Reviewer’s reports are available here. In addition to the annual compliance review, the Code itself is reviewed […]
March 31, 2025
On 20 March, The Atlantic published an article about Meta’s use of a dataset of pirated books (called Library Genesis or LibGen) to train its Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model. The Atlantic has provided on an online tool to enable writers and publishers to search the dataset for their titles. You can see the joint […]
February 7, 2025
The Triennial Code Reviewer, the Hon. Alan Robertson AM SC, invites written submissions on the operation of the Code of Conduct for Copyright Collecting Societies and on any amendments that are necessary or desirable to improve the operation of the Code. This triennial review, to review the Code itself, is separate from the annual review […]
December 5, 2024
In September, we invited members to complete a survey about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). We asked about attitudes towards overseas developers’ use of Australians’ material to train large language models. We also requested feedback on two AI-related licensing proposals for businesses that are covered by our Annual Business Licence: to allow staff to use copyright […]
December 4, 2024
The report by the Annual Code Reviewer on collecting societies’ compliance with the Code of Conduct in 2023–24 is now available here. The objectives of the Code are to facilitate efficient and fair outcomes for members and licensees by: promoting awareness of and access to information about copyright or the resale royalty right or both and […]
