Screenrights has made a submission in response to tthe consultation paper Getting it right: Building AI Infrastructure that works for Australia.
We acknowledge the Government’s ambition for Australia to host and shape frontier AI training on its own terms, and Screenrights' position is that shaping training on Australia’s terms requires ensuring rightsholders retain control over their work and are paid for its use.
Screenrights recommends that the Government:
Reiterate in the AI standards that existing copyright law, including licensing requirements, applies to AI training and inference.
Introduce a general ECL framework into the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
Provide the avenue for rightsholders to opt out of ECL by notifying the relevant collecting society, rather than relying on mechanisms such as robots.txt.
Data requirements, including an itemised record of the copyright material used, are appropriately set through licence terms.
Read the full submission here.
Screenrights Submission in Response to ‘Getting it right: Building AI infrastructure that works for Australia’
Copyright Tribunal: Application filed by Screenrights seeking fair payment for educational use of members’ copyright content by Australian schools
