By Sean Maguire ( October 8, 2026, 06:19 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft told Australian lawmakers that copyright restrictions or legal uncertainty pose barriers to training AI models locally. The government is working on copyright legislation to attract model training and foreign investment, having ruled out a broad text and data mining exemption. Creative industries strongly oppose the proposed opt-out approach, warning it would weaken creators’ control and shift the burden of protecting their work onto rights holders.OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft executives told Australian lawmakers on Tuesday that copyright restrictions or legal uncertainty pose barriers to training AI models locally. ...
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