Australia's AI copyright clash fires up

<p>Australia&#39;s AI copyright fight reignites as leaked documents reveal the Albanese government&#39;s reform plans. Meanwhile, just hours later, Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre lease: a $32 billion project in regional Queensland.</p><p>We discuss:</p><ul><li>The two copyright reform proposals in the leaked documents, and the creative sector&#39;s response.</li><li>Why the AI labs want copyright reform, and the risk of Australia becoming a venue for international legal action.</li><li>The difference between training and inference, and why training is the bigger economic prize.</li><li>Anthropic&#39;s $32 billion Queensland data centre lease.</li><li>How the data centre build-out will be powered, and Labor&#39;s retreat on renewables.</li><li>The Coalition&#39;s mixed messaging on copyright and AI.</li><li>Firmus&#39; Tasmanian sports sponsorships and the social licence playbook.</li><li>The AI existential risk debate.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>On The Call is a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom on the stories driving the agenda in Australia&#39;s centres of power.</p><p>Host Harshdeep Kaur sits down with Capital Brief&#39;s best journalists to dissect what we&#39;re watching and why it matters, and answer questions from our subscribers live.</p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe to join our weekly live discussion on Thursdays at 12pm AEDT: <a href="https://www.capitalbrief.com/on-the-call/">https://www.capitalbrief.com/on-the-call/</a></p><p>Sign up to our free weekly newsletter, The Edition: <a href="https://www.capitalbrief.com/newsletters/the-edition/">https://www.capitalbrief.com/newsletters/the-edition/</a></p>