{"id":289713,"date":"2026-07-15T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/not-up-for-grabs-albanese-establishes-ai-office-and-vows-to-protect-australian-creatives-from-copyright-theft-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:55:06","slug":"not-up-for-grabs-albanese-establishes-ai-office-and-vows-to-protect-australian-creatives-from-copyright-theft-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/not-up-for-grabs-albanese-establishes-ai-office-and-vows-to-protect-australian-creatives-from-copyright-theft-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not up for grabs\u2019: Albanese establishes AI office and vows to protect Australian creatives from copyright \u2018theft\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Not up for grabs\u2019: Albanese establishes AI office and vows to protect Australian creatives from copyright \u2018theft\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/15\/office-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-copyright-australia-government<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-15 06:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese has promised \u201cthe strongest possible protection\u201d for Australian creatives against misuse of their work by artificial intelligence models, warning it would be \u201ctheft\u201d if writers, artists and musicians didn\u2019t have control of their work or receive payment for its use.<\/p>\n

Amid growing community concern about large energy-intensive datacentres, the federal government will also set strict new rules for the facilities, including where they can be built, that they shouldn\u2019t compete for land with housing, their power and water use, and that they don\u2019t increase electricity prices for consumers.<\/p>\n

In a major speech on AI, the prime minister announced the establishment of an office of AI and rejected the prospect of large companies like OpenAI and Anthropic being given free use of Australian data \u2013 a development warmly welcomed by creatives including the Australian Recording Industry Association (Aria) \u2013 but questions remain about how the government will modernise copyright laws and regulate datacentres.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me make this crystal clear: not everything produced in Australia is up for grabs,\u201d Albanese said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralian writers, musicians, artists and journalists must retain ownership and control of their work. Our laws will spell that out, plain as day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Labor has long ruled out giving a text and data mining exemption allowing AI firms to train their large language models on Australian content without compensation to creators, but there has been lobbying from big tech and an industry proposal for special copyright exemptions.<\/p>\n

Cabinet discussions on copyright reforms are continuing, with a diversity of views among senior ministers, but Albanese\u2019s speech was the strongest assurance yet that journalists, musicians, artists and writers would be protected in the age of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist\u2019s control. That…<\/p>\n

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