Australian authors, songwriters, musicians demand payment from AI companies

Australian authors, songwriters, and musicians are demanding payment from AI companies for using their work to train AI models, arguing that tech companies should compensate creators just as other users pay for access to creative content.

Australian authors, songwriters, musicians demand payment from AI companies 7 July 2026 Individuals, educational institutions, and other organisations have to make payment in some form or other https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/write-us-a-cheque-australian-authors-musicians-want-ai-forced-to-pay-for-using-their-work-20260701-p60bn9.html to access the work of writers, musicians, artists, and other creatives. It seems like a naive question, but why should it be any different for the tech companies who are presently helping themselves to whatever material they can get their hands on, so as to train their AI agents? Particularly if the same tech companies expect users to pay to access their AI products. Of course all writers, artists, musicians, etc, wherever they are, should be receiving compensation if any of their work is being used to train AI agents. RELATED CONTENT artificial intelligence https://disassociated.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/ , technology https://disassociated.com/tag/technology/ , trends https://disassociated.com/tag/trends/