Am I ever gonna see copyright protections again

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Albanese has professed his love for Aussie music, but as he bows to tech industry demands, the artists who create it aren’t feeling the same way ...

“Jimmy Barnes needs to be clearer about his view on these things – and he shouldn’t beat around the bush,” Albanese joked at a news conference on Tuesday, after Barnes was quoted as suggesting the AI companies “should go and fuck themselves”.

The prime minister may have managed, in the moment, to brush off his mate’s decision to send a message through the pages of The Australian, but he hasn’t assuaged the concerns in the creative industries and among some in his own Labor caucus about the course he is on. Considering how Albanese leveraged his love of Aussie music ahead of taking the party leadership in 2019, and since, some are finding it puzzling – even alarming – that he seems willing to risk his reputation as a defender of such a politically valuable sector and potentially reinforce public animosity towards the government by bowing to tech industry demands.

The companies believe the cases against them will largely fail because they aren’t pirating or otherwise reproducing the works, so they argue it’s fair use. Rights-holders including news media companies dispute this, noting that AI can produce works that mimic the style of what they’ve consumed. If AI has read an author’s books or a musician’s songs, a few basic instructions can produce a new one in exactly the same style, in seconds. The rights-holders argue that this effectively renders the original creation obsolete, and amounts to reproduction that shouldn’t be exempt. This is why Jimmy Barnes is using the F-word.

If they opted in to the new system, they would be entitled to a one-off payment from that pot of money. How much would be up to the government. If they opted out, they would need to hang a specially designed digital keep-out sign on their work, which the companies would be required to honour. If they did neither, for whatever reason including lack of awareness, that would also be deemed a choice: their work would be fair game for scraping and they’d get nothing.

The clincher is that this would…

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