Thursday 2 October 2025: In opening remarks to a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) CEO Claire Pullen joined other creative leaders and Senators in criticising the Productivity Commission for failing to model the economic contribution of creative industries. Australia’s creative workers raised questions over the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report, including whether the Commission is fit to publish…
Monday 15 September 2025: Australian creative workers have strongly opposed any suggestion that Australia’s copyright laws should be weakened, calling on the government to first address the fundamental issue of copyright theft and the misuse of creative work at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. The Productivity Commission’s interim report “Harnessing data and digital technology”…
The American Authors Guild has provided an update on the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit, advising that an agreement to settle has been reached. The class action lawsuit was filed by author plaintiffs against Anthropic, alleging the AI firm used copyrighted books downloaded from pirate websites to train its Large Language Model (LLM). It has been reported that Anthropic has agreed to…
Thursday 7 August 2025: Australian creative workers and their royalty collecting societies expressed disappointment at the Productivity Commission’s advocacy for a text and data mining (TDM) exception, a move that would retroactively legalise the theft of Australia’s creative workers’ intellectual property, voices, images, and work, by foreign multi-nationals. The interim report “Harnessing data and digital technology” seeks feedback…
The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) and Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) have rejected the suggestion that a Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exception for the training of AI models be considered by the government, and expressed disappointment at the Productivity Commission’s interim report. The report “Harnessing data and digital technology” seeks feedback on…
The theft of thousands of creative workers’ intellectual property by AI companies is unacceptable, say creatives of the Australian screen industry, urging the Government to come down hard on the ongoing and widespread use of stolen and uncompensated work by AI developers. Responding to the Productivity Commission’s consultation on policy reform, the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG), Australian Writers’ Guild Authorship Collecting…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendation from the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training’s Digital Transformation of Workplaces inquiry that would see developers required to prove that their AI systems have not been trained using creatives’ intellectual property. Recommendation 17 of the inquiry requires “developers to demonstrate that AI systems have been developed using lawfully…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendations of the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), including an urgent call for transparency around the use of copyrighted works by AI developers and fair remuneration for creators. The report contains a damning assessment of the “widespread theft of tens of thousands of Australians’ creative works by big multinational…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the recommendations of the Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), including an urgent call for transparency around the use of copyrighted works by AI developers and fair remuneration for creators. The report contains a damning assessment of the “widespread theft of tens of thousands of Australians’ creative works by big multinational…
The Australian Writers’ Guild welcomes the NSW Government’s response to the parliamentary inquiry into AI and its commitment to ensuring the rights of artists are protected. Recommendation three of the inquiry has been accepted by the government, namely “that the NSW Government advocate to the Australian Government for greater protection of the copyright and intellectual property of…
