AI Copyright Deal: Albanese and Taylor Move Toward a Licence-Free Model

Australian PM Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Angus Taylor are moving toward a bipartisan AI copyright deal that would let OpenAI and Anthropic train AI models in Australia without signing individual licences for every work, with creative rights-holders compensated through a pooled fund the labs would pay into. The deal is not signed; the Joint Select Committee's full report is due Nov 30, and creators' groups are pushing back. ARIA's chief executive told parliament on Oct 6 that OpenAI and Anthropic want to train in Australia on the proviso they do not have to abide by Australian copyright law.