Elliot Lawry

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4,557 appearances 48 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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The Daily Aus · The billion-dollar fight over Aussie copyright · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

So that is what was put to the government at the time. voice-verified

During question time, they didn't exactly confirm or deny it, but they did kind of attack Pocock. voice-verified

personally. voice-verified

But what's played out in the time since is that it's kind of spooked a lot of Australian creatives because they think the only protection I have is copyright. voice-verified

And now that might be weakened in exchange for these big AI deals. voice-verified

Yeah, we did a lot of reporting around this near the end of last year because the Productivity Commission, don't ask me what else they do aside from this. voice-verified

Of course. voice-verified

So they basically put forward the idea of letting AI companies scrape Australian copyrighted work. voice-verified

So I'm talking about things like songs, movies, books, poems, even actually journalism and media came up in it. voice-verified

To train AI, yeah, exactly. voice-verified

And that was just an idea put forward to the government at that time. voice-verified

A very similar push came forward and the government came out and said we're not going to take on that recommendation and we will keep copyright protections in place. voice-verified

So that was in October last year. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So I reached out to Michelle Rowland. voice-verified

She's the attorney general, and she was responsible for the initial decision back in October around whether copyright laws would be voice-verified

weakened or not. voice-verified

Now, she said to me very clearly, the government's position is the same. voice-verified

They want to keep copyright protections as is. voice-verified

But what was interesting was I also put to her a question around whether or not the government was having these sort of closed door meetings with AI companies, and that wasn't addressed in the response. voice-verified

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