OpenAI and Anthropic urged Australia to reconsider rules that effectively prevent them from training models on creative works protected by local copyright law. The companies argued that a limited exemption could preserve artists' rights while attracting investment and supporting domestic AI development. Australia plans broad regulation for AI and data centers beginning next year, but officials had ruled out a general training exception. The dispute frames model development as a competition between copyright protection and industrial policy.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-openai-call-australia-relax-ban-training-ai-models-2026-09-22/