AI companies want copyright exemption, but the arts minister says there are ‘no plans’ to weaken these laws. What’s going on?
- Written by John Potts, Professor of Media, Macquarie University
“We have copyright laws,” said arts minister Tony Burke last week. “We have no plans, no intention, no appetite to be weakening those copyright laws based on this draft report that’s floating around.”
He was referring to the Productivity Commission’s controversial floating of a text and data mining exception to...




