Australia's Business Lobby Tried to Quietly Rewrite Copyright Law for AI — Then Got Caught
A leaked proposal from the Business Council of Australia reveals corporate lobbying to exempt AI training from copyright law, and creative communities are treating it as confirmation of everything they feared.
A leaked proposal from the Business Council of Australia, reported by Crikey's Cameron Wilson, laid out a plan to amend the country's Copyright Act so that training AI on copyrighted material would no longer constitute infringement. The council apparently drafted it, then quietly dropped it — but the leak arrived anyway, and for creative communities that have spent months arguing that exactly this kind of backroom deal was in the works, it read less like a revelation than a receipt.
On Bluesky, where the creative industries conversation has been running heavily negative for weeks, the response wasn't alarm so much as a grim vindication. The language in the posts wasn't surprised. One user framed the proposal as an
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