Jacqui Lambie has joined the chorus of critics warning the government against selling out artists and watering down copyright laws in favour of tech platforms.
She tells the Senate big tech are “greedy” and “have no moral compass” and have they money but don’t want to pay creatives for their work.
A leaked memo reported by the ABC shows the government is considering an “opt-out” option for artists, meaning they would have to proactively block their work from being taken by AI, rather than being automatically protected.
Every time big corporations get a sniff of any regulation they threaten to leave the country …
They tried this on in the UK, but the British government told them they wouldn’t change their copyright laws. They are trying it on here, big tech is trying this on all over the world – they’re like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, they’re testing the fences,
Lambie also says it’s “great” that the government is looking at legislation to ensure datacentres don’t use extra water, and bring their own energy but worries the timeline on it is too long.
Some of these companies are valued in trillions of dollars, some have more money than nation states, its not that they can’t pay, it’s that they don’t want to pay
We won’t see these laws until January, we don’t sit until February, it’s not going to happen before July 2027, meanwhile datacentres they’ve already approved won’t be touched by these laws because they won’t be retrospective – that’s the first stupid move you’ve made.
