{"id":19757,"date":"2025-08-14T00:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/scott-farquhar-thinks-australia-should-let-ai-train-for-free-on-creative-content-he-overlooks-one-key-point\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:37:40","slug":"scott-farquhar-thinks-australia-should-let-ai-train-for-free-on-creative-content-he-overlooks-one-key-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/scott-farquhar-thinks-australia-should-let-ai-train-for-free-on-creative-content-he-overlooks-one-key-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder\u2019s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something \u2018new and novel\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia should adopt US-style copyright law to allow artificial intelligence to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/06\/australia-productivity-commission-tdm-copyright-exception-proposal\">suck up all creative content<\/a> or risk harming investment in the industry in Australia, according to Atlassian founder, Scott Farquhar.<\/p>\n<p>Farquhar, the Tech Council of Australia CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-12\/could-australia-benefit-from-the-revolution-in-ai\/105645406\">told ABC\u2019s 7.30 program<\/a> on Tuesday: \u201call AI usage of mining or searching or going across data is probably illegal under Australian law and I think that hurts a lot of investment of these companies in Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the use is commercial or not<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the copyrighted work<\/p>\n<p>The amount used of the copyrighted work<\/p>\n<p>The effect of the use on the market for or value of the copyrighted work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/14\/scott-farquhar-thinks-australia-should-let-ai-train-for-free-on-creative-content-he-overlooks-one-key-point\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6de5456ed237630fd56f43a6d13042354a3dfa52\/424_0_6532_5229\/master\/6532.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0a02cad43649688ecb2d56bf2c2968e6\" title=\"Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point\" \/>CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder\u2019s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something \u2018new and novel\u2019<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nAustralia should adopt US-style copyright law to allow artificial intelligence to suck up all creative content or risk harming investment in the industry in Australia, according to Atlassian founder, Scott Farquhar.<br \/>\nFarquhar, the Tech Council of Australia CEO, told ABC\u2019s 7.30 program on Tuesday: \u201call AI usage of mining or searching or going across data is probably illegal under Australian law and I think that hurts a lot of investment of these companies in Australia\u201d.<br \/>\nWhether the use is commercial or not<br \/>\nThe nature of the copyrighted work<br \/>\nThe amount used of the copyrighted work<br \/>\nThe effect of the use on the market for or value of the copyrighted work. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder\u2019s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something \u2018new and novel\u2019 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should adopt US-style copyright law to allow artificial intelligence to suck up all creative content or risk harming investment in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/scott-farquhar-thinks-australia-should-let-ai-train-for-free-on-creative-content-he-overlooks-one-key-point\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}