{"id":23892,"date":"2026-07-12T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/ai-companies-want-to-water-down-australias-copyright-laws-artists-are-outraged-labor-is-split\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:37:15","slug":"ai-companies-want-to-water-down-australias-copyright-laws-artists-are-outraged-labor-is-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/ai-companies-want-to-water-down-australias-copyright-laws-artists-are-outraged-labor-is-split\/","title":{"rendered":"AI companies want to water down Australia\u2019s copyright laws. Artists are outraged, Labor is split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/12\/anthony-albanese-pat-conroy-labor-liberal-angus-taylor-one-nation-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a \u201cvictim of crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology companies have flagrantly \u201choovered up\u201d her literary works for their own profit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/12\/ai-australia-will-labor-water-down-copyright-laws-datacentres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/22ada131c2cb310491b0adad1a133e8a5cada2c6\/255_557_4171_3337\/master\/4171.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=188278bfb0d5e1c9aed5bfbe0199f7aa\" title=\"AI companies want to water down Australia\u2019s copyright laws. Artists are outraged, Labor is split\" \/>Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives<br \/>\nFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nWhen Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a \u201cvictim of crime\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology companies have flagrantly \u201choovered up\u201d her literary works for their own profit. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House this month, she presented herself not just as a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/ai-companies-want-to-water-down-australias-copyright-laws-artists-are-outraged-labor-is-split\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI companies want to water down Australia\u2019s copyright laws. Artists are outraged, Labor is split<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23893,"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\/23892"}],"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=23892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}