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The prime minister is trying to untangle the copyright knot. But this is about much more than intellectual propertyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf Anthony Albanese has a spiritual home it would be somewhere between the old Sando and the Enmore theatre in that pocket of Sydney’s inner west where
Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey saysGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastAltering copyright law to allow AI companies to scrape music, books and journalism could trigger a constitutional breach, Coalition senators and the recording industry have warned, as they raise
Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expectedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than half of Victoria’s lawyers have reported using AI in their work, according to a new study, but just over a
Of the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers’ group saysGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastAI has already been trained on the works of Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without compensation, the peak global body
‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UKGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf you want to state the case against copyright reform in Australia, get Kylie Minogue’s phone number.If there is one lesson
Tasmania’s Parole Board used a document citing legal authorities that do not exist to prevent Susan Neill-Fraser from proclaiming her innocence. Advocates say the case is ‘deeply troubling’On 26 January 2009, a troublesome yacht called the Four Winds was moored on the Derwent River in Tasmania.Bob Chappell, a physicist at the Royal Hobart hospital, was
Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on
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Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making toolsAs we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absence of a human rights act in Australia will put us all at ever greater risk.Human rights, which the Australian parliament has never managed to properly
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Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creativesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House earlier this month, she presented herself not just as
New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errorsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal court of Australia has warned the legal profession about the dangers of using generative artificial
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