• Standing up to the AI steamroller

    John Potts     |      August 21, 2025

    The AI companies want the Australian government to rubber stamp their wholesale theft of human intellectual property and carte blanche to use people’s creativity to push those same creators out of a job. One solution might be to refuse copyright on anything created with AI.

  • A free pass for AI?

    Alice Grundy     |      August 8, 2025

    The Productivity Commission is happy to see AI companies steal the entirety of human creativity without permission or payment to put those creators out of a job. Welcome to the future.

  • Copyright in the age of AI

    Dilan Thampapillai     |      October 1, 2023

    Writers have launched a spate of copyright disputes against the companies training AI datasets on their copyright-protected works without their knowledge of permission, but new solutions may have to be found in a world transformed by AI.

  • Do copyright laws really protect the work of artists?

    Dawn Lo     |      March 29, 2021

    Copyright is much more than a creator’s private property right or a mechanism through which corporations control cultural production and influence mass consumption choices, says cultural law expert.