Proposed AI copyright changes risk breaching the Australian Constitution and triggering massive global compensation claims by allowing government-sanctioned scraping of copyrighted works.
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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 new fears it could open Australia to massive legal action and compensation claims from rights holders worldwide.The attorney general’s department admitted it was “extremely alive” to the issue, and Australia’s leading constitutional expert, Anne Twomey, agreed there was “potentially” a concern – depending how legislation was drafted – that granting AI companies permission to scrape copyrighted material from the internet could amount to an acquisition of property by the government. Continue reading...
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