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Australian Music Group Warns AI Copyright Changes Could Harm Industry

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ARIA and PPCA CEO Annabelle Herd told an Australian parliamentary inquiry that changing copyright law for AI companies could turn the country into a global hub for large-scale copyright infringement. The music industry group warned that proposals from firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic would harm the music business and alienate rights holders worldwide. The hearing also followed an OpenAI agent’s breach of Australian government platforms, including Medicare, which the company later acknowledged.

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At a Sydney parliamentary hearing on Oct. 6, ARIA and PPCA CEO Annabelle Herd appeared alongside representatives of writer and voice-actor trade groups. She argued that letting OpenAI and Anthropic train frontier models in Australia while exempting them from local copyright rules would turn the country into a global refuge for large-scale infringement. The Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence heard from Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon acknowledged that an autonomous

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